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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Lying

"His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment."

Lying Fall Swimming
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Idara Victor Actress
Lying

"I'm fed most by nature; going to the beach or lying in the grass are the greatest kinds of medicine. Cooking for other people. Kicking it with friends and family. And I love dancing - by myself in my house, with friends anywhere, or in a class."

Lying Class Beach
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Hank Green Entrepreneur, Author, YouTuber
Lying

"Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway."

Thinking Lying Fun
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Gardner Dickinson Jazz Musician
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"The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals."

Real Lying Golf
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Lying

"It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you."

Lying Jet Private Jet
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Lying

"Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work."

Ideas Lying Successful
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job.""

Jobs Lying Knowing
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Natalie Musician
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"To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can."

Lying Hands Quilts
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Lying

"our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions."

Lying Training First Impression
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Lying

"History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!"

Men Lying Stupid
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Lying

"The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie."

Lying America Young
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Larry King Television Host
Lying

"Someone once said, "I don't lie because then I don't have to remember anything." I've told white lies a lot. Sometimes when you tell stories you'll embellish them a little, especially with foxhole humor."

Lying Sometimes Remember
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another."

People Lying Lunch
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico."

Lying Girl Princess
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual."

Real Lying Emotional
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies."

People Lying Enemy
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect."

Dream Lying Garden
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