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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Honesty - Man - Meaning

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population know what the government, the people who rule you are doing. They want to keep it secret of course.

Citizenry - Heroism - Honesty - Secrets - Wants

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Jon Stewart

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Director, Activist, Political Commentator, TV Host

If there was one lesson to be drawn from Bush's appearance (on 'Meet the Press') it's that he doesn't have to be forthcoming or honest. And he's the first to tell you why. (Bush:) 'I'm a war president.' He added: 'I guess I should have told you that back in 2000.'

Honesty - Pressure

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

Compete - Disadvantage - Employment - Favor - Honesty - Legislature - Work

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Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

Honesty - Wants

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

Frankness - Honesty

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Mao Zedong

Founding Father of the People's Republic of China

So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.

Comrades - Honesty - Making - Wishing

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Calvin Coolidge

Former President of the United States

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.

Honesty - Man - Whole

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James Joyce

Writer, Poet, Teacher

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

Honesty - Poetry

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Trevor Noah

Comedian, Writer, Producer, TV Host

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

America - Honesty - Talk

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Selena Gomez

Singer, Actress, Producer

To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

Boredom - Honesty

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Hate - Honesty

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

Belief - Feelings - Honesty - Man - Mindset - Morals - Motivation - World

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Lana Del Rey

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

Having - Honesty - Living - Scary - Wants

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George Lucas

Filmmaker, Entrepreneur

You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.

Honesty - Principle - Robbery - Whole

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Joe Biden

President of the United States

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

Belief - Honesty - Patriotism - Wealth

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Giacomo Casanova

Adventurer, Author

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Character - Having - Honesty - Kindness - Stupid

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Leo Tolstoy

Writer

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Honesty

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George S. Patton

Military Commander

For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

Accusing - Honesty - Judging - Student - Studying

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Cowardice - Help - Honesty - Knowledge - Making - Revolution - Teaching

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Honesty - Humane - Motivation - Objectification

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

There was a striking example of this in Pakistan when the US sent in Special Forces, to be honest, to kill Osama Bin Laden. He could easily have been apprehended and caught but their orders were to kill him.

Honesty

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Kevin Smith

Actor, Director, Author, Comedian

Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.

Honesty

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Horace Mann

Lawyer, Educator, Education Reformer

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

Honesty - Teaching

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William Safire

Author, Journalist, Presidential Speechwriter

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Belief - Honesty - Lie - Man

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Martin Sheen

Actor

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

Growing - Honesty

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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

Eternity - Expectation - Heavens - Honesty - Reward

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Tennessee Williams

Playwright

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

Art - Crowd - Divergence - Goals - Honesty - Wellness - Wishing

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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

Fat - Honesty - Machine - Man - Movement - Prediction

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Akira Kurosawa

Director

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

Honesty - Human - Wants

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Honesty

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