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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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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."

David Antin, American Poet
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"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us."

Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician
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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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"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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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet
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