"The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much."
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
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"Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God."
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"Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province."
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"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god."
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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth."
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"All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly."
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie."
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"The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt."
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"Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great"
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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
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"So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it.""
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"There's a rebel lying deep in my soul."
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
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"The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope."
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"Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy."
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"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."
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"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden."
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