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Umberto Eco
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Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were: ???The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ???There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics???.???
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Jonathan Kozol
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All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature
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Adolf Hitler
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,??? the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. ???It???s working. It???s making a difference.??? It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at leng
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Dorothy Parker
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Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next to him.
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Albert Camus
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A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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Sun Tzu
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All war is deception.
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Saul Bellow
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Elias Canetti
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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David Bohm
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?
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Hietzsche
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.
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Adrienne Rich
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Brian Weir
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In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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Woody Allen
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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
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Samuel Butler
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I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
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Seami Motokiyo
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Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Ephesians 425 Bible
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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
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Robert Benchley
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Roger Kahn
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I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
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Redd Foxx
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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Robert Charles Benchley
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Mark Rutherford
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It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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Calista Flockhart
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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William Shakespeare
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
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SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.
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Dale Carnegie
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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George Lorimer
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Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.
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Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Death of the Flowers._
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The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
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POLLOK: _Course of Time,_ Bk. viii., Line 715.
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'T was slander filled her mouth with lying words,-- Slander, the foulest whelp of sin.
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Chinese Proverb
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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT'
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Ocean's Eleven
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Rusty You look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don't make him laugh. He's got to like you then forget you the moment you've left his side.
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Harry S Truman
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Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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CRABBE: _Borough,_ Letter vii., Line 75.
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Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash-- Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill: All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Marcel Proust
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The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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War is based on deception.
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The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
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I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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"Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception," - Heinlein
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"Your deception OFFENDS me brother!" - Worf
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"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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I always lie. In fact, I'm lying to you right now!
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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Diplomacy: lying in state.
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I can tell you are lying. Your lips are moving.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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Advertising is legalized lying. - H.G. Wells
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Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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"Why was Commodore lying to you? Because they HATED THEIR CUSTOMERS.
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The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
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An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
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"I see the tragedy of young ones lying on the ground" -Coverdale/Page
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"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain" -Floyd
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"Listen to me carefully: I am lying."--Harry Mudd
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"She's lying, I swear! Sometimes, toilets just explode!"
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"It's better than lying there counting people, right?"-Radar to lamb
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy." -- Butler
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"That stuff is lying around just waiting to be picked up." - The Stand
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"He's an evil, lying little bastard!" - Richie Ryan
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"I was lying in a hole, but I got up because I began to like it." Marvin
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"Look in my face and tell me that I am lying." -- Eddie Dean
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"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."Nixon
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"Lying on the floor next to his own severed head."
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"I wasn't lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."-Nixon
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"I must know if he's lying." Kirk on Gary Seven
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"I should be lying dead in there, not him." Garrovick
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"I knew I was lying." * Kryten
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"Look, I have no reason to believe Q is lying." - Picard
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