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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
Sacrifice
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
Nature
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
Books
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
Art
"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
Creativity
"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."
Doubt
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
Darkness
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
Peace
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"I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie."
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Personal Development
"The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."
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Personal Development
"True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us."
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Personal Development
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
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Personal Development
"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
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Personal Development
"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."
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Personal Development
"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
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Personal Development
"Belief in the lie is the life of the lie."
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Personal Development
"In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?"
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Personal Development
"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
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Personal Development
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