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“I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.”

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Author:Joe Kyrillos

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.”

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Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!

“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.”

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Author:Ron Kaufman

“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.”

“Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.”

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Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.”

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Author:James Hillman

“Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.”

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Author:Master P

“It's true that PC culture has created very little honest dialogue.”

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Author:Sho Baraka