Lies Quotes
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In compassion lies the world's true strength.
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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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.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
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Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
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Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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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.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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No one understand a word I say. I’m beginning to think the fault lies within.
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Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
