"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

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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"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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"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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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"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."

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

"When did one man ever civilize a people?"

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