"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
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"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away."
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."
"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
"Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now."
"Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody. ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence."
"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."
"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."
"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
"Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth."
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"Life's as kind as you let it be."
"Love truth, but pardon error."
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
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