"No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind."
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"Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
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"When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up."
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"To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."
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"To overvalue something is a form of lying."
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"Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning."
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"In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war."
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"Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself."
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"For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality."
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"Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest."
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"Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it."
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"The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape."
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"She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been"
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"You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself."
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"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him."
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"Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness."
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"The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how."
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"The danger lies in forgetting."
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"If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason."
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"A big lie is more plausible than truth."
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