Lies Quotes
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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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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane
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Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
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The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
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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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Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
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In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?
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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.
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
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The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
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How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.
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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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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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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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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.
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The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
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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.
