"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

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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

Lie, Consciousness, Potential, Waking

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Man, Violence

"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

Lie, Man, Violence

"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

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

Lie, Americans, Creation, Direction

"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

Reading

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

Public Relations

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."

Sex

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

Experience

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

Reality

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

God

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

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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."

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

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

"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."

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

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

"A lie never lives to be old."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."

"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."

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"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."

"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."