
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Topic: Honesty, Truth
- Location: Oceanside, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
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I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
No man should be angry with what is true.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
