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• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Lies, Secret

• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Follies, Fallow, Lies, Single

• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

  Arthur Calwell

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  Tags in Winning, Defeated, Lies

• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Lies, Will, Mystery

• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window.

  Honoré de Balzac

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  Tags in Careless, Lies, Difference, Daylight

• Common fame seldom lies.

  Topics in Dutch Proverbs

  Tags in Seldom, Fame, Lies

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  Taylor Caldwell

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  Tags in Genes, Lies

• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

  Mikhail Bakunin

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  Tags in Separated, Lies

• I keep reading between the lies.

  Goodman Ace

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  Tags in Newspapers, Lies, News

• When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  Pearl Bailey

  Topics in Achievement, Age, Goal

  Tags in Accomplishment, Lies, Excellence, Men

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Lies, Ideas

• I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

  Clint Eastwood

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  Tags in Pessimism, Desires, Forge, Want, Lies

• S*x is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

  Jim Morrison

  Topics in Honesty

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• The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.

  Topics in African Proverbs, Grief

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• Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

  Aristotle

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  Tags in Lies, Lying

• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Statistics, Lies, Lying

• Nurture your minds with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Heroism, Heroic, Nurture, Lies, Excellence

• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Topics in Truth

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• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in Ability, America

  Tags in Greatness, Lies, Repair

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Honesty, Truth

  Tags in Monarchy, Lies, Hope, Wishing, Will, Thinking, Comfort