Lies Quotes
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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.
B. Traven
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Though the terrain of frustration may be vast - from a stubbed toe to an untimely death - at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Alain de Botton
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How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
Brendan Coyle
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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Marty Meehan
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Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Paul Bloom
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It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
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Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
Daniel Levitin
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India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
Henry Paulson
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Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.
Bruce Lee
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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)
Jean Baudrillard
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Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
Jeaniene Frost
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
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When one is polite in German, one lies.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
I. F. Stone
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There's been a lot of lies written about me.
Davinia Taylor
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253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus, that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson
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Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
Clive Sinclair
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With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.
Anne Sexton
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
Alison Lurie
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Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
R. A. Torrey
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Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'T was one of my most intimate enemies.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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I am so excited about what lies ahead here at CNN, ... I am delighted.
Paula Zahn