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 | “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” ―Martin Luther King, Jr. Source/Notes: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: I HAVE A DREAM AND OTHER GREAT WRITINGS (2013 edition), Beacon Press - ISBN: 9780807033043 |
 | “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” ―Thomas Jefferson Source/Notes: Letter to John Norvell (11 June 1807) |
 | “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” ―C. S. Lewis Source/Notes: A Year with C. S. Lewis (2009 edition), HarperCollins - ISBN: 9780061757648 |
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 | “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” ―Rabindranath Tagore Source/Notes: Variant translation: "For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation. " - Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (1913) |
 | “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” ―John F. Kennedy Source/Notes: Commencement address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (11 June 1962) |
 | Source/Notes: Letter to Edwin Stanton (14 July 1864). See John Hay (1890), Abraham Lincoln: A History. |
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 | Source/Notes: Attributed. Variation: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.". Also attributed to Winston Churchill |
 | Source/Notes: As quoted in "Oscar Wilde: Reminiscences" by André Gide |
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