"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."
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"What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil."
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"To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it."
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"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
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"Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other."
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
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"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
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"Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity"
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"The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge."
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"The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth."
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"The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system."
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"It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant."
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"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
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"Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of."
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"When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!"
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"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."
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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world."
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"People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies."
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"I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth."
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"The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe."
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