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"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie."
Andrew Vachss
"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie."
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"Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance."
Tom Allen
"Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance."
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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."
James Levine
"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."
Lie,
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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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"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."
Jim Doyle
"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."
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"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Marjorie Holmes
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
Aeschylus
"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
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"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."
Ken Kesey
"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."
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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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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."
Thomas Jane
"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."
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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
Lawrence Durrell
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
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"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
Elizabeth Bowen
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
Lie,
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"Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline."
Julius Schwartz
"Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline."
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"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
Charles Edward Montague
"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
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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."
John Cusack
"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 great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
Adolf Hitler
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
Elizabeth Bowen
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
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"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
Donald Rumsfeld
"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
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"What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists."
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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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"A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world."
Ariel Sharon
"A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world."
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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
Evan Esar
"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
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"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."
Oliver Herford
"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."
Lie,
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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."
Hal Borland
"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.'"
Charles M. Schulz
"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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"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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"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."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"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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"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."
L. Neil Smith
"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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"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Mary Wesley
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
Roger Ebert
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
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"Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path."
Mason Cooley
"Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path."
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"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."
Lord Charles Beresford
"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."
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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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"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics."
Courtney Love
"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics."
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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"Weaklings must lie."
Jean Paul
"Weaklings must lie."
Lie,
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"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."
Daniel Ellsberg
"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."
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"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
Karl Shapiro
"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
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"I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie."
Mark Wahlberg
"I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie."
Lie,
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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."
Diane Ackerman
"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."
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"Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president."
Linda Tripp
"Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president."
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"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."
Henrietta Szold
"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."
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"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
Abraham Cowley
"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
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"I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii."
Linda Lingle
"I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii."
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"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."
Derrick Jensen
"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."
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"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."
Junipero Serra
"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."
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"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
Max Eastman
"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."
Lie,
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"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."
Lewis Hine
"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."
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