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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
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"A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines."
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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