"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

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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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"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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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

Edward de Bono, English Psychologist

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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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"There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you."

Ken Follet, Welsh Author

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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

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"Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time."

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"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war."

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"The woman who loves always smells good."

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"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

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"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."

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"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

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"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."

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