"Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet."
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"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."
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"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
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"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."
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"Man is bound to lie about himself"
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"Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt."
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"An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion."
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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."
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"I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience."
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"It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects"
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"The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel."
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"People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies."
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"When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!"
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"The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying."
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"Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development"
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"Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen."
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"Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars."
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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
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"Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot."
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"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
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