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• In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,… — Graydon Carter
• The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. — Alain Vigneault
• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other… — Khalil Gibran
• We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer
• If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
• He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but… — Erwin Chargaff
• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes
• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon
• Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off… — Thomas Jefferson

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