“ The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.". ”
- Charles M. Schulz- Copy
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“ Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie there — that's a disgrace. ”
- E. V. Cooke- Copy
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“ Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I love night more than day — she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music… Bodies never lie. ”
- Agnes de Mille- Copy
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“ Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
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“ A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
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“ As for courage and will — we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. ”
- Andre Norton- Copy
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“ How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie. ”
- Babylonian Talmud- Copy
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“ It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. ”
- Cory Doctorow- Copy
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“ Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim. ”
- George Farquhar- Copy
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“ The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right — it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ”
- Christopher Lasch- Copy
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“ The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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