Quotes with lies

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  • Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Charles Dickens Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Hesiod 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 steer is the way to it.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Umberto Eco Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bret Harte Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th December, 1850.
    The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Allan Massie Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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  • A. E. Housman Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
    Breath's a ware that will not keep.
    Up, lad: when the journey's over
    There'll be time enough to sleep.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 4 (Reveille), st. 6
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Norman Mailer 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.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  • Bertolt Brecht Every day, to earn my daily bread
    I go to the market where lies are bought
    Hopefully
    I take up my place among the sellers.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Hollywood (1942)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
    Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
    Blow away the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) The Promised Land
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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