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Letter "F" » falsehoods
«The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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dangerous, distorted, distorting, falsehoods, slightly
«The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.»
«Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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deceiver, deceivers, deceiving, efficiency, falsehoods, ineradicable, in public, liar, possesses, prevail, primacy
«The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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Truth
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commonplaces, dictum, falsehoods, persecution, refute, refutes, refuting, triumphs
«The person, who treads on the path of truth, refrains from deception, treachery, pretension, and remains untouched by falsehoods is never devoid of eternal joy. »
Author: Rig Veda
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deception, devoid, devoid of, falsehoods, pretension, refrains, treachery, treads, untouched
«There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other.»
«The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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falsehoods, instances, persecution, put down, refute, refutes, refuting, set back, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, triumphs
«Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Vulgarity
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conduct, conducts, falsehoods, just as, Other People, truths, vulgarity
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