Lies Quotes
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And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
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Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.
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The value of actions lies in their timing.
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
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I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.
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The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is. (p. 350)
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
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Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives.
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
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Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
