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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Lying

"The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies."

Lying Identity Special You
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Lying

"And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy."

Lying Guy Everyday
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Lying

"Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?"

Lying Baby Dies
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along."

Lying Magic Miracle
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul."

Lying Philosophy Time
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow."

People Lying Laughing
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Richard Ford Novelist
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"If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined."

Lying Faces Regret
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"

People Kids Lying
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable."

Lying Truth Honesty
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"But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire."

Lying Flower Butterfly
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Stanley Baldwin Politician
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"Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies."

Thinking Lying Air
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Lying

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Lying Father Death
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition."

Lying Views Perspective
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change."

Lying Essence Raw Materials
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or any honest intellectual inquiry."

Lying Knowing Intellectual
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