Lies Quotes
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It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
Antony Beevor
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Somewhere in the scientific method lies the answer for the needed management techniques. It is obvious.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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No one understand a word I say. I’m beginning to think the fault lies within.
Ian Bohen
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Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
Yasmin Mogahed
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
Mahatma Gandhi
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
Lewis B. Smedes
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It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner
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Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
David Ignatius
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I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
Billy Joel
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I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
John le Carre
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THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In compassion lies the world's true strength.
Gautama Buddha
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
Thomas Carlyle
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From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Pablo Picasso
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
George Eliot
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
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Art never lies, I believe.
Deborah Solomon
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
George Sand