"The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way."
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"It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there."
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
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"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest."
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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
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"The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos."
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"If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it."
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"I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time."
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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
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"It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
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"Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth."
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"I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't."
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"The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel"
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"It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes."
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"All the happiness you ever find lies in you."
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"There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?"
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"I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."
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"Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity."
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"Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal."
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