"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."

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"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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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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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children."

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"As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear."

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"I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right."

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"I'm tired of living in a police state."

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"The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent."

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"People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials."

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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."

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"Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day."

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"I'm tired of being considered property."

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"A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft."

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