"He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips."
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"My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
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"You can't pray a lie -- I found that out."
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"I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else."
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"My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."
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"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."
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"Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception."
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"Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it."
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"But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie."
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"I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it."
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"History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth."
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"He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed."
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"If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action."
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"That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom."
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"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."
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"Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion."
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"Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise."
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"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
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"Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star"
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"The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is over, there they lie waging a gentle but incessant warfare with time and slowly, oh, so slowly, yielding to its attacks!"
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