It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.
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It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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