Friday, January 9, 2009

Telling The Truth



If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain in Abounding Grace, by M. Scott Peck, p. 250)

The exposure of a lie is as valuable to a community as a clearly expressed truth. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, 15 September)

A state system, no matter what kind of state system it is, functions at a far remove from the requirements of Christianity. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, 13 October)

In those countries where wise, people are in power, their subjects do not notice the existence of their rulers. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom, 13 October)

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