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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Karl A. Menninger

Different, Made, Possible

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
Jaron Lanier

Made, Soon, Dictators

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
Ringo Starr

Women, Sleeping

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.
Marissa Mayer

Power, Amazing, Today

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
Andy Goldsworthy

Energy, Inside, Animal

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Richard Posner

Good, Fool, Honest

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
Johan Cruijff

Confused, Others, Start

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
John James Audubon

Beautiful, Worse, Drawings

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
Emily Blunt

Good, True, Emotions

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
Emily Blunt

Quite, Period, Arch

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
Jeffrey Archer

Travel, Leaving, Land

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
Bill Nighy

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Political, Down

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond

Truth, Stage, Plausible

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Enya

Music, Person, Seen

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler

Family, History, Character

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
Brian Williams

Light, Speak, Until

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
Todd Gitlin

Change, May, Living

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
Todd Gitlin

Human, Makes, Everyday

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Walter Lang

Today, Human, Between

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Society, Wish, Taught

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
Tom Hooper

Characters, Reflect, Cultures

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
David Copperfield

Disappear, Board, Trick

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
Edward F. Halifax

Beauty, Greater, Dress

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alone, Forward, Personal

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Terence

Wrong, Nowadays, Rewarded

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Terence

Men, Wrong, Days

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
George III

Mother, Country, Once

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
Arabella Weir

Fear, School, Different

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
William Godwin

Life, Men, Evil

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