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Arthur Calwell

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."

Arthur Calwell, Australian Politician
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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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"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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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
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"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

William Wyler, American Director
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"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman
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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Elia Kazan, American Director
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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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