Quotes 61 till 80 of 247.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
Pinocchio (1892) -
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302 -
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65 -
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
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