William Beveridge (1879–1963) Economist and social reformer
Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) Pt. 7
“Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.”
No. 30 (November 11, 1758)
The Idler (1758–1760)
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Context: Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. Truth and falsehood are two sides of the same coin. Neither accept one nor reject the other.
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Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
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