A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.

~ Criss Jami

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If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

~ Toba Beta

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People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

~ George Eliot

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When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle.

~ Papua New Guinea Proverb

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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

~ Suzy Kassem

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Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,love being the new black,and compassion going viral.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

~ Anthony Liccione

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In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

~ Lois Greiman

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Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

~ Katie Mcgarry

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A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

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Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

~ Cass R. Sunstein

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The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

~ Jessica Fortunato

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Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.

~ Pawan Mishra

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The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is false and misleading. Many if not most diagnostic entities have been renamed or have had their names modified as psychiatry changes in its conceptualizations and classifications of mental illnesses. When the DSM decided to go with “Dissociative Identity Disorder” it put “(formerly multiple personality disorder)” right after the new name to signify that it was the same condition. It’s right there on page 526 of DSM-IV-R. There have been four different names for this condition in the DSMs over the course of my career. I was part of the group that developed and wrote successive descriptions and diagnostic criteria for this condition for DSM-III-R, DSM–IV, and DSM-IV-TR.While some patients have been hurt by the impact of material that proves to be inaccurate, there is no evidence that scientifically demonstrates the prevalence of such events. Most material alleged to be false has been disputed by someone, but has not been proven false.Finally, however intriguing the idea of encouraging forgetting troubling material may seem, there is no evidence that it is either effective or safe as a general approach to treatment. There is considerable belief that when such material is put out of mind, it creates symptoms indirectly, from “behind the scenes.” Ironically, such efforts purport to cure some dissociative phenomena by encouraging others, such as Dissociative Amnesia.

~ Richard P. Kluft

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An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

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The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left to say about these cases. But a close examination of the witch hunt canon leads to some unsettling questions: Why is there so little in the way of academic scholarship about these cases? Almost all of the major witch-hunt writings have been in magazines, often without any footnotes to verify or assess the claims made. Why hasn't anyone writing about these cases said anything about how difficult they are to research? There are so many roadblocks and limitations to researching these cases that it would seem incumbent on any serious writer to address the limitations of data sources. Many of these cases seem to have been researched in a manner of days or weeks. Nevertheless, the cases are described in a definitive way that belies their length and complexity, along with the inherent difficulty in researching original trial court documents. This book is based on the first systematic examination of court records in these cases.

~ Ross Cheit

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Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton

~ William Shakespeare

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Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

~ William Shakespeare

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Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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RUMOUR:Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

~ William Shakespeare

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You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of people in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much

~ Lewis Carroll

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It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

~ Joshua Ferris

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Death is a distant rumor to the young.

~ Andy Rooney

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