Lies Quotes
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
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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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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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It's as easy to utter lies as truth.
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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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The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
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Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
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Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
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Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.
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My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
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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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Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
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A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
