"An excuse is a lie guarded."
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"I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!"
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"Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy."
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"It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch."
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"The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities."
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
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"Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist"
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"It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces."
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"It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating."
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"Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths."
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"True life lies in laughter, love and work."
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"The truth hurts, but those lies heal."
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"I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate."
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"I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan"
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"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man."
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"The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals."
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"Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine."
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"I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'"
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"I'd rather not have anything than be a liar."
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"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell."
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