"The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness."
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"If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up."
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"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie."
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"In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself."
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"To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie."
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"Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile."
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"No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us."
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"The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid."
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"There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies."
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"Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye."
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"Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
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"I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time."
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"He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer."
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"I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you."
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"In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles."
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"Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future."
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"Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world."
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"For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing."
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"Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them."
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"Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature."
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