“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”

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Edward R. Murrow67

Television journalist 1908–1965

Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author

What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I

“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.”

Ralph Smart

“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”

Arthur Koestler book The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation (1970).

“I probably feel a bit threatened, as so many people do... look, it is a fact of life and I try to treat people as people, and not put them in pigeonholes.”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

Interview with Liz Hayes for 60 Minutes, when asked how he felt about homosexuality, quoted in Quoted in The Daily Telegraph https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/what-does-abbott-fear-they-might-do-to-him/news-story/ba3ffa814f3fe0be7b28e78cc536e2f7, 8 Mar, 2010. <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition (2009-2015)