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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
Author:
William Yeats
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Author:
Frank Wright
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
Author:
James Wolcott
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Author:
Tad Williams
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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Author:
Roy Williams
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Author:
Ryan White
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So much of our future lies in preserving our past.
Author:
Peter Westbrook
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Author:
Kanye West
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Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Author:
Richard Weizsaecker
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Author:
Simone Weil
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I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Author:
Charles Warner
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Author:
Charles Warner
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Author:
Voltaire
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.
Author:
John Turturro
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To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
Author:
Ralph Trine
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Author:
James Thurber
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Author:
Tertullian
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Author:
Cathy Tempelsman
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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
Author:
Sharon Tate
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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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.
Author:
Henrietta Szold
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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Author:
W. Stone
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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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.
Author:
John Sterling
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All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
Author:
Alexander Stephens
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Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Author:
Madame Stael
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My religion lies in my composition.
Author:
John Sousa
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Author:
Sophocles
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
Author:
L. Smith
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Author:
Iain Smith
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Author:
Paul Simon
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Author:
Norodom Sihanouk
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The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
Author:
Paul Signac
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Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.
Author:
David Shuster
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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
Author:
Edgar Shoaff
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The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Author:
Li Shing
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But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
Author:
John Sexton
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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.
Author:
Junipero Serra
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
Author:
Julius Schwartz
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Author:
George Santayana
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Author:
Jonas Salk
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
Author:
George Russell
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
Author:
John Ruskin
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There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.
Author:
Alan Rudolph
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Author:
Harold Rosenberg
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
Author:
James Roosevelt
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They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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People for the most part can smell lies.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Author:
Odilon Redon
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Author:
Jane Quinn
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
Author:
Richard Price
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The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Author:
Plato
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The test of any man lies in action.
Author:
Pindar
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Author:
Albert Pike
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Author:
Edith Piaf
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Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.
Author:
Goran Persson
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You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
Author:
Evita Peron
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
Author:
M. Peck
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Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Author:
Thomas Peacock
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Author:
Octavio Paz
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Author:
Saint Patrick
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Author:
Louis Pasteur
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
Author:
William Paley
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
Author:
Major Owens
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True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Author:
Ovid
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Art lies by its own artifice.
Author:
Ovid
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Author:
Adam Osborne
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Author:
George Orwell
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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Author:
George Orwell
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Author:
George Orwell
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Author:
George Orwell
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Author:
George Orwell
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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Author:
Origen
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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Author:
Merlin Olsen
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Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Author:
Jean O'Leary
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And all your future lies beneath your hat.
Author:
John Oldham
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
Author:
Phil Ochs
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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Author:
Phil Ochs
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No lies, just love.
Author:
Conor Oberst
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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.
Author:
Andre Norton
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
Author:
Benjamin Netanyahu
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Author:
Gerard Nerval
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Author:
Pablo Neruda
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
Author:
Arthur Murray
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Author:
Iris Murdoch
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.
Author:
Dick Morris
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
Author:
John Morley
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The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Author:
Thomas More
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Author:
Maria Montessori
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The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.
Author:
Donald Mitchell
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Author:
Jack Miller
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Author:
Agnes Mille
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Author:
Michelangelo
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
Author:
Yehudi Menuhin
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
Author:
Ian Mckellen
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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Author:
William McIlvanney
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My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Author:
Terry McAuliffe
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
Author:
Jane Mayer
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Author:
Allan Massie
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The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
Author:
Ray Manzarek
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
Author:
Agnes Macphail
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I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Author:
Ken MacLeod
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It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
Author:
Hugh MacDiarmid
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
Author:
David Low
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All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.
Author:
Tina Louise
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Vince Lombardi
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The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
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Bobby Locke
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Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
Author:
Jay Livingston
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
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Charles Lindbergh
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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Anne Lindbergh
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I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
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Joe Lieberman
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Oscar Levant
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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
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A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
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Matthew Lesko
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
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Stanislaw Lec
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Stephen Leacock
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Tommy Lasorda
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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.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
Author:
Polykarp Kusch
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.
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Joel Kotkin
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Author:
Alfred Korzybski
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Author:
Willem Kooning
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To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
Author:
Junichiro Koizumi
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Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
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Howard Koch
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Author:
Paul Klee
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Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
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Robert Kiyosaki
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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Author:
Thomas Kinkade
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
Author:
Don King
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Author:
John Keynes
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Author:
Garrison Keillor
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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John Keats
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Author:
Howard Jones
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Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Author:
Harry Johnston
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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Author:
Henry John
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
Author:
Maria Jeritza
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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.
Author:
Derrick Jensen
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The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
Author:
Friedrich Jahn
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author:
Washington Irving
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author:
Washington Irving
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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
Author:
Clifford Irving
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
Author:
John Hutton
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Author:
Johan Huizinga
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Author:
Edward Howe
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Author:
Edward Howe
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I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.
Author:
William Hooper
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Author:
Gordon Hinckley
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The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Author:
Hesiod
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
Author:
Eugen Herrigel
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
Author:
Auberon Herbert
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Heraclitus
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Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Author:
Don Henley
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Author:
Anthony Hecht
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
Author:
B. Hart
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The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Author:
Learned Hand
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Author:
Learned Hand
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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Author:
Peter Hammill
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
Author:
Edward Hall
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What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.
Author:
Jessica Hahn
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Author:
Zane Grey
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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Author:
Harold Greene
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Author:
Graham Greene
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
Author:
Elisha Gray
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Author:
Gunther Grass
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The body never lies.
Author:
Martha Graham
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Author:
Stephen Gould
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Author:
Alan Gorrie
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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We are men of action, lies do not become us.
Author:
William Goldman
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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On all the peaks lies peace.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Author:
Carol Gilligan
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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
