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“Wisdom is the courage to embrace a truth that we may not find favorable because the pursuit of our agenda in the face of such a truth is certain to be anything but favorable.”

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“My deepest longings don’t lie in great things for greatness is always birthed of simplicity, and God in a manger is the simple pinnacle of such a great truth.”

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“Propaganda evidences the existence of truth.”

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“The greatest propaganda is that which declares it is not.”

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“A lie is the fear of the truth put to words.”

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“Truth is not the friend of the coward.”

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“Truth is the mortuary of propaganda.”

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“The weight of the lie will never lighten the load of the circumstance.”

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“If something truly meets the needs that it claims to meet, it will sell itself. Yet our world is deluged with advertising.”

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“The greatest deceit imaginational is to make the lies of another our truth.”

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“Honesty means willfully exchanging my precious agendas for the very truth that those agendas were designed to destroy. And sadly, few of us choose to be that brave.”

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“Truth is rare, so don’t assume it to be where it’s not.”

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“If we give information a credibility that it does not deserve, we are certain to get the consequences that we do.”

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“The thing about justifications is that they’re required when there’s not enough truth in what we’re doing to justify it without justifying it.”

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“I don’t like to mince words any more than I like to mince garlic. Either way, your breath is bad.”

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“If you want to confuse somebody tell them the truth, because there’s a really good chance that that’s the one thing they didn’t anticipate.”

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“If the truth hurt you, it was because it is helping you avoid the greater pain of the lie that you’re about to tell.”

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“Propaganda is a sure sign that the truth is uncomfortable.”

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“Am I brave enough to face a truth that will challenge all of my lies?”

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“The truth might be a bit hard to swallow at times, but unlike a lie, the truth is never rotten.”

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“If you think about it, the only reason that the phrase ‘the end justifies the means’ was written is because we needed to make ourselves feel okay about doing something that wasn’t.”

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“Don’t lie to yourself, despite how good you’ve become at it.”

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“The truth is neither friend nor foe. Rather, it is our decision to embrace it or reject it that makes it one or the other. Therefore, the nature of truth as it relates to us is up to us.”

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“Truth is the thing that protects me from chasing the stuff that will rather quickly end up chasing me.”

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“Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the truth has longer legs, but because lies haven’t got a ‘leg to stand on’ much less any legs to run on.”

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“If I am bending the truth because it refuses to adhere to my agenda, I must realize that in the bending the truth has forewarned me that I am not crafting an agenda at all. Rather, I am crafting the trajectory of my own demise. And even though I adamantly reject such a notion as preposterous, it is a truth that I cannot bend.”

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“Truth is the thing that lies spend their lives running from.”

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“The greatest truths are not shouted from some podium. Rather, they are lived out in the quietness of one’s actions, for that is the greatest of podiums.”

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“Just because we chose to reject the truth does mean that such an option was actually available to us.”

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“If I somehow find that the truth is inconvenient, it’s because my ethics are out of whack.”

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“The next shooting will come. And when it does, we will do absolutely everything within our power to avoid addressing the real issue. And the only answer that I have for an insanity of this magnitude is that we are infinitely more committed to building a culture that feeds our greed than constructing a culture that rests in God.”

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“The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?”

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“Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.”

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“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.”

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“If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”

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“To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.”

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“Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.”

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“Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.”

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“Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.”

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“In our crazed passion to declare that there are no absolute truths, have we not just declared one?”

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“The most spectacular successes arise from those sacred dreams that have been repeatedly bludgeoned by their critics and who’s refusal to fall bludgeons the critics.”

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“The ‘facts’ of our existence often have the tire tracks of our ‘fiction’ imprinted all over them. And just as the ‘facts’ begin to raise themselves out of the dirt, we slam the truck into reverse.”

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“Truth is not convenient. It is not lenient nor passive. It is not kind to the selfish. It will never bend to the forgery of propaganda. It is not predisposed to the pacifism of truth compromised. It will wreck political platforms that pen truth out of their policies. And with the invincible morality that is the essence of truth itself, it will see to it that the consequence of any lie is on its way before the lie is on its. Such is the nature of truth for the fool who would embrace the lie that he is sufficiently wise to betray it.”

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“Because the battle for good does not make the front page news does not mean that there is less of it than what does make the front page news. In fact, we would be wise to understand that in our current cultural climate, its absence speaks to the power of its presence.”

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“True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.”

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“It is nothing more than a mere handful of thoughtful words unfettered by tarnished agendas, tempered by wisdom, ordered by truth, and arranged into simple syntax that have empowered ordinary men to do utterly extraordinary things. And I am thankful that I am an ordinary man who loves words.”

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“Too many people don’t understand the truth regarding their own truth.”

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“If the lie becomes our truth, so does our destruction.”

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“Truth cannot squeeze itself into a single line of the subjective narrative penned by impassioned narcissist.”

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