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| Diane Ackerman |
A poem records emotions and...
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| Alfred Adler |
The truth is often a terrible...
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| Alfred Adler |
A lie would have no sense...
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| Alfred Adler |
It is the patriotic duty of...
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| Alfred Adler |
A lie would have no sense...
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| Theodor Adorno |
Art is magic delivered from...
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| Theodor Adorno |
A German is someone who cannot...
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| Aeschylus |
There is no sickness worse for...
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| James Agee |
It is a peculiar part of...
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| Damon Albarn |
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more...
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| Woody Allen |
The lion and the calf shall...
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| Tim Allen |
Men are liars. We'll lie about...
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| Kirstie Alley |
Usually, about 85 percent of...
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| Martin Amis |
Only in art will the lion...
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| Tori Amos |
You know that saying, bad...
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| David Antin |
A myth is the name of...
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas |
The test of the artist does...
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| Roone Arledge |
I don't think the news...
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| Scott Bakula |
The biggest challenge for everybody...
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| Mikhail Bakunin |
Political Freedom without economic equality...
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| Lucille Ball |
The secret of staying young is...
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| John Kendrick Bangs |
I can't tell a lie - not...
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| Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
Tis not where we lie, but...
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| Roland Barthes |
Myth is neither a lie nor...
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| Lyman Beecher |
Never chase a lie. Let it...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Anyone who tells a lie has...
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| Paul Begala |
If it was about lying under...
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| Hilaire Belloc |
The moment a man talks to...
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| Hilaire Belloc |
It is sometimes necessary to...
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| Walter Benjamin |
Memory is not an instrument...
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| Bo Bennett |
For every good reason there is...
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| Lord Charles Beresford |
Very sorry can't come. Lie...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Immortality: A toy which people...
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| Otto von Bismarck |
People never lie so much as...
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| Dewitt Bodeen |
Even as fog continues to lie...
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| Roberto Bolano |
But every single damn thing...
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| Edward de Bono |
Opportunity ideas do not lie...
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
As you make your bed, so...
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| Hal Borland |
A snowdrift is a beautiful...
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| James Bovard |
People are so docile right now...
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| Elizabeth Bowen |
Never to lie is to have...
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| Elizabeth Bowen |
The innocent are so few that...
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| Lester Bowie |
They always say that jazz...
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| Belle Boyd |
If it is a crime to...
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| Lara Flynn Boyle |
I remember doing the sex scene...
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| Sarah Brady |
Our main agenda is to have...
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| Andre Braugher |
So I think what you see...
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| Joseph Brodsky |
The real history of consciousness...
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| Willie Brown |
In politics, a lie unanswered...
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| Jackson Browne |
I love to read. I love...
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| Georg Buchner |
You women could make someone...
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| Sandra Bullock |
I don't like guys who will...
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| Edmund Burke |
Sin has many tools, but a...
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| Leo Buscaglia |
Love always creates, it never...
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| Samuel Butler |
Any fool can tell the truth...
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| Samuel Butler |
Lying has a kind of respect...
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| Yancy Butler |
To say I'm the easiest person...
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| Yancy Butler |
I'm the oldest 26-year-old...
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| James Callaghan |
A lie can be halfway round...
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| James Callaghan |
A lie can be halfway around...
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| Elias Canetti |
Someone who always has to lie...
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| Donald Cargill |
It is long since I could...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
True humor springs not more...
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| Eric Carr |
I can't say why people lie...
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| John Le Carre |
We lie to one another every...
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| Lillian Gordy Carter |
Jimmy says he'll never tell a...
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| Giacomo Casanova |
Should I perchance still feel...
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| John Jay Chapman |
The reason for the slow...
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| Mary Cheney |
Life would be so much harder...
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| Lydia M. Child |
The cure for all ills and...
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| Lydia M. Child |
The cure for all the ills...
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| Winston Churchill |
A lie gets halfway around the...
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| Emile M. Cioran |
To Live signifies to believe...
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| Hugo Claus |
In spring they lie flat at...
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| Jean Cocteau |
I am a lie who always...
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| Paulo Coelho |
No one can lie, no one...
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| Mason Cooley |
An omnipotent God is the only...
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| Pierre Corneille |
One ought to have a good...
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| Pierre Corneille |
It takes good memory to keep...
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| Elvis Costello |
There are many critics who...
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| Abraham Cowley |
This only grant me, that my...
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| George Crabbe |
A great lie is like a...
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| John Cusack |
There are some good people...
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| Puff Daddy |
I've got to take a break...
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| Willem Dafoe |
I wish to Christ I could...
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| James Daly |
You lie awake at 3 in...
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| Evan Dando |
I lie around and play guitar...
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| Bobby Darin |
My entire life has been a...
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| Bobby Darin |
Everybody thinks I'm at death's...
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| Bobby Darin |
My whole life has been a...
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| George Deukmejian |
The difference in golf and...
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| Denis Diderot |
We swallow greedily any lie...
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| Matt Dillon |
When I was twenty-two it...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
The choicest pleasures of life...
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Happiness does not lie in...
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| Norman Douglas |
It takes a wise man to...
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| Jim Doyle |
With new jobs, new ideas, and...
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| Finley Peter Dunne |
A lie with a purpose is...
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| Lawrence Durrell |
Guilt always hurries towards its...
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| John Dyer |
And he that will this health...
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| Bob Dylan |
All the truth in the world...
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| Crystal Eastman |
It is all right for the...
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| Max Eastman |
I don't know why it is...
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| Roger Ebert |
Your intellect may be confused...
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| Henry Ellis |
The art of dancing stands at...
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| Epictetus |
If evil be spoken of you...
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| Desiderius Erasmus |
A good portion of speaking...
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| Evan Esar |
Definition of a Statistician: A...
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| Harold Evans |
The camera cannot lie, but it...
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| Frances Farmer |
I used to lie between cool...
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| William Feather |
Women lie about their age; men...
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| Albert Finney |
I don't think that we...
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| Robert J. Flaherty |
Sometimes you have to lie. One...
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| Ken Follet |
There is no point in asking...
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| Lynn Fontanne |
I lied to everybody. I lie...
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| Harrison Ford |
The third time you say a...
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| Milos Forman |
And also they were absolutely...
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| Benjamin Franklin |
Half a truth is often a...
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| Cathy Freeman |
I lie around the floor with...
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| Fred W. Friendly |
A composite is a euphemism for...
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| James Anthony Froude |
Superior strength is found in...
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| Thomas Fuller |
A lie has no leg, but...
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| Joseph Gallivan |
Old hippies don't die, they...
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| Jim Garrison |
It's rather naive, apart from...
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| David Geffen |
In Hollywood people lie to...
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| Philip Gibbs |
We who go out to die...
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| Natalie Goldberg |
Stress is basically a disconnection...
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| Whoopi Goldberg |
When I started, I knew I...
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| John Gotti |
I never lie because I don't...
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| Remy de Gourmont |
Very simple ideas lie within...
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| Remy de Gourmont |
Simple ideas lie within the...
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| Baltasar Gracian |
It is better to sleep on...
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| Baltasar Gracian |
A single lie destroys a whole...
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| Graham Greene |
Champagne, if you are seeking...
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| Lee Greenwood |
Some people may believe that...
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| John Grierson |
The oblique paradox of propaganda...
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| Steve Guttenberg |
If you put down a list...
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| James Hall |
Why would anyone lie? The...
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| Christopher Hampton |
I always divide people into...
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| Kathleen Hanna |
You learn that the only way...
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| Garrett Hardin |
But it is no good using...
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| Jean Harlow |
When you lie down with dogs...
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| Josh Hartnett |
Be honest with yourself and...
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| Vaclav Havel |
Lying can never save us from...
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| J. D. Hayworth |
Recent economic data shows that...
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| Jimi Hendrix |
Music doesn't lie. If there is...
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| Beth Henley |
In movement class, you had to...
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| Keith Henson |
Lie detection is like language...
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| George Herbert |
Dare to be true. Nothing can...
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| George Herbert |
Sweet spring, full of sweet...
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| Oliver Herford |
Tact is to lie about others...
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| Oliver Herford |
Tact: to lie about others as...
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| Patricia Hewitt |
And it seems to me in...
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| Robert Higgs |
When American presidents prepare for...
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| Lewis Hine |
While photographs may not lie...
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| Hippocrates |
Keep a watch also on the...
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| Adolf Hitler |
The great masses of the people...
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| Adolf Hitler |
If you tell a big enough...
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| Adolf Hitler |
Make the lie big, make it...
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| Adolf Hitler |
The great mass of people will...
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| Eric Hoffer |
We lie loudest when we lie...
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| Eric Hoffer |
Those in possession of absolute...
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| Hal Holbrook |
I got a feeling about...
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| Marjorie Holmes |
I find the great thing in...
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
To reach a port we must...
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| Anthony Hopkins |
I have a punishing workout...
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| A. E. Housman |
Here dead lie we because we...
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| Whitney Houston |
My mother taught me that when...
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| Edwin Powell Hubble |
The great spirals... apparently lie...
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| Holly Hunter |
I would love to work more...
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| Michael Hutchence |
You know sometimes I just want...
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| Robert M. Hutchins |
When I feel like exercising I...
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| Aldous Huxley |
An unexciting truth may be...
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| Thomas Huxley |
Economy does not lie in...
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| King Hussein I |
Let me say this loud and...
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| Pope John Paul II |
An excuse is worse and more...
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| Natalie Imbruglia |
I am such a bad liar...
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| Robert Green Ingersoll |
A fact never went into...
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| Alphonso Jackson |
The dream doesn't lie in...
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| Jackie Jackson |
I know my brother. Michael...
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| Michael Jackson |
It's a complete lie, why do...
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| William James |
Our normal waking consciousness, rational...
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| Alice James |
The success or failure of a...
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| Thomas Jane |
Earlier on in my career I...
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| Derek Jeter |
My hero's, my dreams, and my...
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| Denis Johnson |
If you take a lie and...
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| Jim Jones |
A lot of people are tired...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
A lie cannot live.
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Discrimination is a hellhound that...
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| Walid Jumblatt |
The consequence of Mr. Bush's...
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| Franz Kafka |
There are only two things...
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| Kiri Te Kanawa |
When I perform Strauss, it is...
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| Immanuel Kant |
By a lie, a man... annihilates...
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| Elia Kazan |
I would rather do what I...
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| John F. Kennedy |
The great enemy of the truth...
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| John F. Kennedy |
The great enemy of the truth...
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| Ken Kesey |
When Shakespeare was writing, he...
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| Stephen King |
Fiction is the truth inside...
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| Stephen King |
Only enemies speak the truth...
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| William L. M. King |
The anxiety of most parents in...
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| Larry King |
When I was 5 years old...
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| Steve King |
The solution really has to lie...
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| Olga Korbut |
This is probably why, my life...
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| Karl Kraus |
How is the world ruled and...
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| Chantal Kreviazuk |
When I was 21, I got...
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| Louis Kronenberger |
In art there are tears that...
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| Mike Krzyzewski |
I have a rule on my...
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| Nick Lachey |
We can't control it, and we've...
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| Tim LaHaye |
It's the lie of evolution that...
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| Dalai Lama |
The roots of all goodness lie...
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| Frank Lampard |
The advantage does lie with us...
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| Walter Savage Landor |
There is no easy path leading...
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| Artie Lange |
I'm not going to lie to...
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| Christopher Lasch |
A child's appetite for new...
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| Christopher Lasch |
The hope of a new politics...
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| Stephen Leacock |
It's a lie, but Heaven will...
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| Stanislaw Lec |
Never lie when the truth is...
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| Gottfried Leibniz |
The ultimate reason of things...
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| Gottfried Leibniz |
This is why the ultimate...
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| Vladimir Lenin |
A lie told often enough...
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| Vladimir Lenin |
A lie told often enough...
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| Primo Levi |
Human memory is a marvelous...
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| James Levine |
But the important thing is to...
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| Georg C. Lichtenberg |
Nowadays three witty turns of...
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
The sea does not reward those...
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| Linda Lingle |
I truly believe the brightest...
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| Mary Wilson Little |
The tombstone is about the...
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| Mario Vargas Llosa |
Since it is impossible to know...
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| Adolf Loos |
Changes in the traditional way...
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| Federico Garcia Lorca |
New York is something awful...
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| Courtney Love |
I might lie a lot but...
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| John Lubbock |
Rest is not idleness, and to...
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| Alison Lurie |
We can lie in the language...
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| Peter Malkin |
Even a secret agent can't lie...
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| Thomas Mann |
A harmful truth is better than...
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| Marya Mannes |
Lie down and listen to the...
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| Marilyn Manson |
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her...
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| Charles Manson |
I can't judge any of you...
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| Mickey Mantle |
He who has the fastest golf...
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| Josie Maran |
I could lie and tell you...
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| Dean Martin |
You're not drunk if you can...
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| Philip Massinger |
Many good purposes lie in the...
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| Dave Matthews |
I can't believe that we would...
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| Benjamin E. Mays |
The tragedy of life doesn't...
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| Benjamin E. Mays |
It must be borne in mind...
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| Terry McAuliffe |
Someone who lies about the...
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| Mercedes McCambridge |
I'd stand in line for...
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| Mary McCarthy |
Every word she writes is a...
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| Mark McGwire |
I touched Roger's bat and held...
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| H. L. Mencken |
It is hard to believe that...
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| H. L. Mencken |
Legend: A lie that has...
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| H. L. Mencken |
I believe that it is better...
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| Antonio de Mendoza |
I made a habit always to...
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| Agnes de Mille |
The truest expression of a...
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| Olin Miller |
A man who will not lie...
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| Czeslaw Milosz |
Grow your tree of falsehood...
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| Joni Mitchell |
This is a nation that has...
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| Charles Edward Montague |
A lie will easily get you...
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| Michel de Montaigne |
I do myself a greater injury...
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| Michel de Montaigne |
The public weal requires that...
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| Michel de Montaigne |
Unless a man feels he has...
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| Maria Montessori |
The teacher must derive not...
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| Susanna Moodie |
I have no wish for a...
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| Robin Morgan |
Let's put one lie to rest...
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| John L. Motley |
A soil, exhausted by the long...
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| Augustus Y. Napier |
The greatest impediments to changes...
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| Bruce Nauman |
And so I put down some...
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| Nursultan Nazarbayev |
As of today, we do not...
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| Isaac Newton |
To myself I am only a...
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| Jack Nicholson |
There's only two people in...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
All truth is simple... is that...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
One may sometimes tell a lie...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
The lie is a condition of...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
The most common lie is that...
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| Lyn Nofziger |
I sometimes lie awake at night...
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| Andre Norton |
As for courage and will - we...
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| Conor Oberst |
I know a girl who cries...
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| Rudolf Otto |
But aesthetics is not religion...
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| Satchel Paige |
If your stomach disputes you...
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| Thomas Paine |
That God cannot lie, is no...
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| Emmeline Pankhurst |
Justice and judgment lie often...
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| Paracelsus |
Many have said of Alchemy...
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| Anne Parillaud |
Knowing what I know of love...
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| Gilbert Parker |
He knew the lie of silence...
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| Jean Paul |
Weaklings must lie.
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| Simon Pegg |
I used to lie in bed...
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| John Perkins |
When the National Security Agency...
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| River Phoenix |
I sometimes lie, especially about...
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| River Phoenix |
I try to lie as much...
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| Pablo Picasso |
We all know that art is...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Art is the lie that enables...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Art is a lie that makes...
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| Pablo Picasso |
We all know that Art is...
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| Plato |
As the builders say, the...
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| Plato |
The rulers of the state are...
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| Titus Maccius Plautus |
The greatest talents often lie...
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| Plutarch |
The very spring and root of...
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| Alexander Pope |
And, after all, what is a...
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| Alexander Pope |
Never was it given to mortal...
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| Vince Poscente |
Walking your talk is a great...
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| Beatrix Potter |
Thank God I have the seeing...
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| Robert Purvis |
To make me believe that those...
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| Yitzhak Rabin |
I believe that it is my...
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| Tommy Rettig |
Acid wasn't getting a whole...
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| Boyd Rice |
Similarly, only people as misanthropic...
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| Jef I. Richards |
The law requires a paper towel...
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| Kevin Richardson |
But I would lie on the...
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| Doris Roberts |
Humor is imperative, more important...
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| Joe Rogan |
If you can lie, you can...
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| Zhu Rongji |
Even if a minefield or the...
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| Jean Rostand |
In politics, yesterday's lie is...
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| Helen Rowland |
Before marriage, a man will go...
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| Donald Rumsfeld |
There are a lot of people...
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| Todd Rundgren |
Most people outside of America...
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| Mort Sahl |
Washington couldn't tell a lie...
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| Andrei Sakharov |
For me, the moral difficulties...
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| Leverett Saltonstall |
I have confidence that the...
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| Joe Scarborough |
I see it all the time...
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| Charles M. Schultz |
Sometimes I lie awake at night...
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| Charles M. Schulz |
Sometimes I lie awake at night...
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| Charles M. Schulz |
Sometimes I lie awake at night...
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| Izabella Scorupco |
After filming I like to go...
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| Paul Scott |
Ah, well, the truth is always...
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| Brent Scowcroft |
We must find out where the...
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| Shakira |
I pefer an ugly truth to...
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| Karl Shapiro |
My soul is now her day...
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| Ariel Sharon |
A lie should be tried in...
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| Cindy Sheehan |
It's up to us, the people...
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| Cybill Sheperd |
I had to lie so much...
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| Clare Short |
But then Iraq happened after...
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| Sargent Shriver |
The roots of racism lie deep...
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| Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva |
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and...
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| Gene Simmons |
I refuse to stand up in...
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| Peter Singer |
I don't think there's much...
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| Peter Singer |
You might hold an ethical...
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| L. Neil Smith |
It's often been observed that...
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| L. Neil Smith |
The claim that the World Trade...
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| Alexander Solzehnitsyn |
In our country the lie has...
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| Alexander Solzehnitsyn |
Violence can only be concealed...
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| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Any man who has once...
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| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Violence can only be concealed...
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| Susan Sontag |
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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| Susan Sontag |
The truth is balance. However...
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| Susan Sontag |
The truth is balance, but the...
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| Sophocles |
A lie never lives to be...
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| Sophocles |
No lie ever reaches old age...
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| John Philip Sousa |
Remember always that the composer's...
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| Robert Southey |
All deception in the course of...
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| Wole Soyinka |
Power is domination, control, and...
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| Larry Speakes |
I would dodge, not lie, in...
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| Sylvester Stallone |
I never quite understood these...
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| Gertrude Stein |
You'll be old and you never...
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| John Sterling |
There is no lie that a...
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| Adlai E. Stevenson |
On the plains of hesitation...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
When it comes to my own...
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| I. F. Stone |
Every emancipation has in it...
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| Mark Strand |
And at least in poetry you...
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| Peter Straub |
The actual Blue Rose murders...
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| Patricia Sun |
When we don't have information...
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| Donald Sutherland |
Vietnam was a lie but at...
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| Jimmy Swaggart |
It's a humorous statement that...
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| Jonathan Swift |
A lie does not consist in...
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| Thomas Sydenham |
In writing the history of a...
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| Arthur Sylvester |
I think the inherent right of...
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| Publilius Syrus |
Pain forces even the innocent...
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| Leo Szilard |
Don't lie if you don't have...
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| Donna Tartt |
Children - if you think back...
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| Harold Taylor |
The roots of true achievement...
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| Jeremy Taylor |
When you lie down with a...
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| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
A lie which is half a...
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| Bennie Thompson |
If you talk to the Whites...
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| Emma Thompson |
I don't think people understand...
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| Billy Bob Thornton |
I've never heard of anybody...
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| Leo Tolstoy |
The law condemns and punishes...
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| Arnold J. Toynbee |
The immense cities lie basking...
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| Lars von Trier |
It's always been a lie that...
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| Linda Tripp |
Look, if America - if being an...
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| Harry S. Truman |
Richard Nixon is a no good...
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| Paul Tsongas |
It was a myth that's often...
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| Scott Turow |
All my novels are about the...
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| Mark Twain |
A lie can travel half way...
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| Mark Twain |
One of the most striking...
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| Mark Twain |
The main difference between a...
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| Mark Twain |
George Washington, as a boy...
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| Mark Twain |
It is better to take what...
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| Andrew Vachss |
The idea that you're not a...
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| Andrew Vachss |
The idea that you are a...
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| Stevie Ray Vaughan |
You know, there's a big lie...
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| Voltaire |
I should like to lie at...
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| Mark Wahlberg |
I never lie. I believe...
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| Robert Walpole |
Let sleeping dogs lie.
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| Horace Walpole |
Justice is rather the activity...
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| Sela Ward |
Yes and our obsession with...
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| Simone Weil |
The danger is not lest the...
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| Simone Weil |
When a contradiction is impossible...
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| Bob Wells |
Actions lie louder than words.
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| Mary Wesley |
We all lie to each other...
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| Paul Weyrich |
Politicians often lie.
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| Theodore White |
The best time to listen to...
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| Tad Williams |
We tell lies when we are...
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| Edward Bennett Williams |
These newspaper reporters... ever since...
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| Tad Williams |
We tell lies when we are...
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| Jeanette Winterson |
Creative work is incredibly difficult...
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| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Someone who knows too much...
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| Tom Wolfe |
In Sleep we lie all naked...
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| Stevie Wonder |
Eyes lie if you ever look...
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| Bob Woodward |
When you hear in the tape...
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| William Wordsworth |
To me the meanest flower that...
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| Henry Wotton |
An ambassador is an honest man...
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| Henry Wotton |
An Ambassador is an honest man...
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| Steve Wozniak |
But I know newspapers. They...
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| William Wyler |
I made over forty Westerns. I...
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| Edward Young |
Truth never was indebted to a...
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| Leontine Young |
Children lie to others for...
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| Marguerite Yourcenar |
I have never seasoned a truth...
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| Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
What is a lie? It is...
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