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Lying / Lies
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
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-William Blake
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once,
finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it
becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without
the world's believing him. his falsehood of the tongue leads to that of
the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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-Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and
lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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-Stephen King
The Gunslinger
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*People think that a
liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is
an act of self-abdication, because one surrender's one's reality to the
person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning
oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view
requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie--
the price one pays is the destruction of that which the gain was intended
to serve. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then
on.
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-Dagny Taggart, a heroine in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A Is A, Ch. III, "Anti-Greed"
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always
recovering.
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-Steven Soderbergh
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*All lies lead to the
truth.
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-The X-Files
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