A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.


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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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The truth hurts. It seems nobody can handle the truth or is willing to accept the truth.
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Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts
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Truth hurts but ignorance is deadly.
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Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
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The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity
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The truth hurts, only when it can heal.
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You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me.
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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I don't mind, i don't care, i don't give a dime!
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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty,
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
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The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
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Buck up, suck up, and admit you fucked up.
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Truth hurts the most when you know the least of it and realize what is.
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
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Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
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Always say the truth even if it hurts as long as it helps.
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Where can I find help when I can't release the truth that hurts.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.
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Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
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The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
WILL ROGERS
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a Hous...
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper t...
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I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifu...
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The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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