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Quote by Graham Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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War
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Graham Greene
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Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. – Graham Greene

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Fear
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Graham Greene
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. – Andy Rooney

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Truth

Id like to say Im R&ampBs savior. Whether thats the truth or not, Im definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, I am here to save R&ampB. I will have the people saying, Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&ampB. – Jamie Foxx

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Truth

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. – Charles Peguy

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Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens

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Truth

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On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. – Emanuel Celler

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. – Quentin Crisp

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton

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Faith