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On Truth and Falsehood

I wish I had said that
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”
~ Mark Twain

“The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might.”
~ Mark Twain

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
~ Groucho Marx

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
~ Mark Twain

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
~ Harry S. Truman

“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he’s getting it.”
~ Ken Kesey

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

“The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.”
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”
~ Arthur McBride Bloch

“The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced.”
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.”
~ German Saying

“It takes two to lie. One to lie, and one to listen.”
~ Homer Simpson

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
~ Harry S. Truman

“There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.”
~ Charles Caleb Colton

“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”
~ Samuel Johnson

“Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.”
~ Homer Simpson

“Facts are meaningless – you could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!”
~ Homer Simpson

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.”
~ Dorothy Parker

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
~ Mark Twain

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The laws and rules that govern the securities industry in the United States derive from a simple and straightforward concept: all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it." —U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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