"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him."
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"The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
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"There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race."
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"If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news."
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"The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted."
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"God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love."
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"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre."
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"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie."
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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
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"The good or ill of a man lies within his own will."
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"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"
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"I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies."
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"To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before."
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"You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie."
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"The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation."
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"A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote."
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"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
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"Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft."
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"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."
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"Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way."
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