"The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
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"It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."
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"The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’."
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"Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen?"
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"I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish."
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"All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things."
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"To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within."
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"IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain."
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"The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government."
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"We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman."
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"If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth"
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"Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth."
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."
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"I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself"
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"There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting."
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"Our greatest fears lie in anticipation."
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"It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic."
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"The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties."
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"I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness."
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"There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge."
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