It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.


Terry Pratchett

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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
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Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
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There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies.
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Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall.
WILLIAM PITT ("THE YOUNGER")
A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Its really good to know WHO you are... it makes others lies about you comedy!
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
AHMED ABU
All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
AHMED OMAR ABU ALI
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Acceptance Is The Most Happiest Thing Than Expectation
BHARATH RAO KADAM
We keep things piled up inside, even the harshest response seems appropriate.
NCIS
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule...
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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all of its meaninglessness
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of it...
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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fan...
ADOLF HITLER
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
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Wherever you are, be all there.
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In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
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Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists o...
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The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if...
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Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources o...
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
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The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
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The problem lies in interpretation. A nude should be accepted for its face value — an exploration o...
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
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This is just the way it is, ... When I wanted to use, I went to the black people I knew who used. We...
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An epic world of infinite possibilities, lies within our reach. All mankind has to do, is align itse...
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The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
OVID
We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.
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We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person ...
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top prior...
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I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own...
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from ...
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest i...
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The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.
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The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is re...
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
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Within all the dark lies, there is a bright truth, you just have to find it
XANDERL
The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted.
TOBA BETA
One of mankind's greatest failings, lies in its inability; to put itself in its brother's shoes.
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Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which f...
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, th...
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Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specif...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA
Remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
RICHARD LIES
I'm sorry for these people, but there are a lot of them here. Their families should take care of the...
HENRIETTA BROWN
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts o...
MIKE CAREY
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What c...
JODI PICOULT
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. HOWE
Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.
MEGHAN DAUM
All of us are God's creatures... just some are more creature than others.
UNKNOWN
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live...
H. L. MENCKEN
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live...
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To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real -- a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to...
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Mankind's greatest threat, lies only inches behind its eyes.
ENRIQUE VEGA
Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
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People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, w...
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Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
a society’s fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.
JARED DIAMOND
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
It's hard to see where the future of Telstra's business lies. Its ongoing battle with the government...
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
HEINRICH HEINE
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
HEINRICH HEINE
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. I...
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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
There are some hunters out there that just want to kill a deer. Then there are others and all they w...
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What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.
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So he has no head'
'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really...
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...
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The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ...
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Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w...
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a...
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ...
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle...
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She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ...
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
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Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ...
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Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ...
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ...
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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af...
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Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ...
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso...
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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti...
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Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo...
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ar...
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"Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary...
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ...
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ...
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul...
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An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ...
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then...
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ...
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l...
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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh...
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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I...
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