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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. – Xenophanes

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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. – Abraham Maslow

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