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Lie Quotes
"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
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"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."
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"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
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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."
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"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."
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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."
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"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
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"Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path."
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"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."
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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."
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"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."
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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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"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
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"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination."
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
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"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."
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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
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"I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking."
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"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished."
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"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
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"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."
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