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You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

William Stafford / Poet
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

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There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

Brennan Manning Author

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