"Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God."
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"We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth."
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"When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom."
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"If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct."
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"I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating."
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"Library: A place where the dead lie."
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"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."
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"When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society."
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"However you make your living is where your talent lies."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it."
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"We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss."
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"Love is the first lie; wisdom the last."
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"It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough."
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"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
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"Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache"
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"The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion"
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"The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart."
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"The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said."
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"We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think."
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