Sentences with phrase «important than telling you any truth»

Their needs will always be more important than telling you any truth that isn't in their favor..
As Megan McArdle commented in her discussion of the Peter Gleick affair, After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.
The problem is with Megan McArdle's Law: «After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.»

Not exact matches

Peace is, in certain instances, more important than telling the whole truth.
But it's important to note that if we are going to take the 9th commandment seriously we have to do more than not lie — we must tell the truth, and even defend those who are being lied about.
His experience in running the agency was more important for the senators than the «lesser issue» of truth telling.
One of the most important of these is that the brain has to work much harder to lie than to tell the truth.
Lets see without trying to sound like everything else you will read... I am a genuine soul who is open to all possibilities... I believe the most important thing in any relationship romantic or not is HONESTY... I would rather have you be mad at me for telling the truth than lying to you... a persons...
The truth about us is that we are more comfortable with films that fortify the base of our society — the one that tells us that men are more important than we are.
However, the best agents realize that telling the homeowner the truth is more important than getting the seller to like them.
Instead, they tell you 1) that women don't REALLY know what they want and it's your job to MAKE THEM SEE what they really want and 2) what is most important is the end goal of dating and sleeping with a woman rather than treating her like a person, so lying or obscuring the truth is perfectly okay.
I think also of some experiences I've had with Indians, where being truthful was less important as a discrete ethic than what I observe in American culture, and for whom if lying in the end preserves some sense of desirable social order, it is equally or not more ethical than telling the truth.
The most important sentence and most telling truth within your piece is thus: «Analytical talent is more important than persuasive.»
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