Lies Quotes
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This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
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If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
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Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .
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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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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.
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I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
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We cannot afford to have lies in music.
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The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
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All legends must be based on lies, Gordon realized. We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while.
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He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
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The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes - ideals for heroes - and they don't need to be told elaborate 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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Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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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 open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is a bizarre frontier.
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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
