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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Appearances often are deceiving.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

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It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

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Advertising is legalized lying.

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