"A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending."
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"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
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"Falsehood is a perennial spring."
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"The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction."
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"Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time."
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"The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor."
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"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."
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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
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"He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing."
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"Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
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"So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time"
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"To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."
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"Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
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"This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself."
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"I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer."
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"Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery."
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"My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?"
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"Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not."
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