"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."

Henrietta Szold, American Activist

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Resilience

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

Truth

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Psychology

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Humility

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."

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"A lie never lives to be old."

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

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"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."