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George H Morrison Theologian
Lying

"It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere."

Men Home Lying
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Gunter Grass Novelist
Lying

"Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that."

Lying Different Hurt
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Gunnar Peterson Athlete
Lying

"I had one actress who trained with me and took six Spin classes a week. And all she ate was lettuce and Swedish Fish. When the press asked her how she'd transformed' her body, she said, Oh, I do yoga and hike with my puppy.' That made me laugh. Don't lie about how much you work out, because other women are going to think, I walk my dog, why don't I look like that?"

Lying Dog Yoga
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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
Lying

"Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home."

Lying Hurt Time
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Franz Kafka Writer
Lying

"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies."

Art Lying Telling The Truth
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Franz Kafka Writer
Lying

"One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so."

Lying Opportunity
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Lying

"For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves."

Believe Lying Teacher
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Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist
Lying

"The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies."

Looks Lying Truth
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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Lying

"In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life."

Moving Lying Morning
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Lying

"If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies."

Lying Future Depression
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Lying

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold."

Book Mind Lying
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Lying

"And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets."

Lying Reality Mirrors
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Lying

"The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world."

Lying Animal Pride
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
Lying

"It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience."

Real Lying Punishment
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