Lie Quotes
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
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A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!
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You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
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You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself.
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No lie ever reaches old age.
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I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.
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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
