"Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth."
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"In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives."
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"We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep."
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"No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for."
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"The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived."
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"It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world."
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"If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative."
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"I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth."
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"I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch."
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"The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers."
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"The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing."
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"I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love."
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"Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives."
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"Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper."
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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work."
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"Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke."
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"Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives."
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"Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."
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"The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations."
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