Lies Quotes
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Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
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Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.
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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
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Their smiles are lies. Most smiles are.
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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 man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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"We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
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Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
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All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
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We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
