Lies Quotes
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
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The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
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The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
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All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.
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I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.
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Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.
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When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
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The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
