"Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely."
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"In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints."
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"In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience."
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"if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone"
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"The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . ."
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"For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think."
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"The soul's joy lies in doing."
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"It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground."
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"Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance."
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"One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived."
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"Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security."
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"Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies."
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"He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national."
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"If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up."
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"Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies."
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"One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition."
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"Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so."
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"It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced."
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