Quotes with lie-detector

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  • Baltasar Gracian A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Tim O'Brien A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells Actions lie louder than words.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • François Truffaut All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Henry Wotton An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Alexander Pope An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aldous Huxley An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lord George Byron And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andre Norton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Khaled Hosseini But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bret Harte But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Immanuel Kant By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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