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"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."
Lynn Fontanne
"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."
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"To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie."
Yancy Butler
"To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie."
Lie,
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"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."
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"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."
Paul Tsongas
"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."
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"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart."
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"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."
George Herbert
"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."
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"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
Hippocrates
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
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"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
Eduardo Chillida
"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
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"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
Wayne Dyer
"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
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"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."
Elvis Costello
"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."
Lie,
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"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
Pope John Paul II
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
Lie,
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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
Elias Canetti
"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
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"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
Jef I. Richards
"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
John Lothrop Motley
"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
James Daly
"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
Theodor Adorno
"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
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"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."
Simon Pegg
"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."
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"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."
Phil Ochs
"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."
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"It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal."
Tim LaHaye
"It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal."
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"The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth."
Harold Evans
"The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth."
Lie,
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"I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that."
Mark McGwire
"I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that."
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"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
Bob Woodward
"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
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"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
Andre Braugher
"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
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"Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us."
Boyd Rice
"Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us."
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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
Joni Mitchell
"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
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"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sarah Brady
"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
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"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."
Satchel Paige
"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."
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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."
Jonathan Swift
"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."
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"The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight."
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"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
Finley Peter Dunne
"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
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"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
Garrett Hardin
"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
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"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."
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"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Robert M. Hutchins
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else."
Josh Hartnett
"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else."
Lie,
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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
Baltasar Gracian
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
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"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies."
John Sterling
"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies."
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"'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
Pedro Calderon
"'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
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"It takes good memory to keep up a lie."
Pierre Corneille
"It takes good memory to keep up a lie."
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"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
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"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."
Federico Garcia Lorca
"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."
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"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
Evita Peron
"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
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"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."
Peter Singer
"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."
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"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."
Arnold J. Toynbee
"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."
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"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
John Keats
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
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"Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent."
Kirstie Alley
"Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent."
Lie,
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"I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one."
John Kendrick Bangs
"I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one."
Lie,
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"Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person."
Stevie Wonder
"Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person."
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"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."
John Gotti
"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."
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"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter."
William Lyon Mackenzie King
"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter."
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