Anton Chekhov Quotes, Lying Quotes, Years Quotes

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Lying Quotes , Adequacy Quotes

We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Lying Quotes , Views Quotes

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

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Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Doe Quotes

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Lying Quotes

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Brother Quotes , Lying Quotes

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Lying Quotes , Ambition Quotes

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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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Lying Quotes , Deceit Quotes

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , Might Quotes

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Anxiety Quotes

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Lying Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Lying Quotes , Deceit Quotes

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Lying Quotes , Teaching Quotes

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Lying Quotes

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Lying Quotes , People Quotes

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Self Esteem Quotes , Lying Quotes

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Lying Quotes , Secret Quotes