"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

Ethics, Truth, Lies, Morality, Choice

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"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

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"It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!"

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"To live consciously and courageously, to resonate with kindness and respect, to awaken the true spirit within others and to leave this world better than it was when i found it."

Sravani Saha Nakhro, Indian Author

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"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart."

Sherrilyn Kenyon, American Author

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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."

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"Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive."

Belief

"Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species."

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"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

Life

"One mustn't dream of one's future, one must earn it."

Success

"The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction."

Literature

"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."

Creativity

"Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire."

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"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

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"And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything."

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