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Lie Quotes
"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted."
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"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
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"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
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"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
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"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."
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"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
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"As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy."
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"I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it."
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
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"White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion."
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"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."
Lie,
"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying."
"When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white."
"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."
"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
"Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature."
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
"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."
"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
"It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine."
"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do."
"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."
"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."
"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"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."
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