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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: Truth (various)
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <Dec30.031304.35785@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Dec30.220728.14579@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:13:46 GMT
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- "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
- --Mark Twain
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- "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
- improbable, must be the truth."
- --Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
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- "It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you
- are an exceptionally good liar."
- --Jerome K. Jerome
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- "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
- know how to lie well."
- - Samuel Butler
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- "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
- up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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- "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-
- [that's just a search for the word 'truth' from my ever-growing favorite
- quote file. Hope it's at least a bit interesting.]
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- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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