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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,…
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it…
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily…
Collective will supplants individual whim
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes…
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as…
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in.…
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a…
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of…
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem.…

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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes
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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are… — Eddie Adams
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths.… — Okakura Kakuzo
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Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a… — Stefan Kieszling

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