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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.
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
The politics of experience -
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
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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.
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I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
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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.
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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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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
A Caribbean Mystery (1964) -
I keep reading between the lies.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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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.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952) -
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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