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  • Samuel Butler Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
    Bob Gunton
     
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  • Bill Buford Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Carl Lewis M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Walsh Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Russell Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
    Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ronald Laing Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • David Blaine Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Ovid Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Booth Tarkington Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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