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• There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Trust, Beautiful, Needs

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• A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Brave

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• Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.

  Charlie Munger

  Lying, Believe, America

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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.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Book, Mean

  "War no joke for Bush at correspondents' dinner". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2004.

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• The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb) It sounds good, doesn’t it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it’s war. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Fun, War

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.1, Macmillan

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• I can’t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Trying, Next

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, J. R. Ward, Susan Squires, Dianna Love (2008). “Dead After Dark”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

  Ally Carter

  Self, Notes, Totally Awesome

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• One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

  Philippa Gregory

  Understanding, World, Narrative

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• Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

  Abraham Pais

  Believe, Writing, Science

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• Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Lying, Recovery, Alcoholism

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• Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

  Harold Brodkey

  Writing, Thinking, Knees

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• Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.

  Harry Yoxall

  War, Believe, Hands

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• But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this, You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you should appreciate your luck. But, I mean, it just seems if you even hint that there's a bad side to any of this people will be like-Liar! I guess it's because people want to have it as a dream

  Robert Pattinson

  Dream, Grateful, Mean

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Selfish

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• The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Artist, Law, Age

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

  Albert Einstein

  Would Be, Speak, Blind

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, St. Martin's Press

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• I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

  James Carville

  Lying, Thinking, President

  "Jousting with the king of spin: James Carville". Interview with Jonathan Katz, dailynorthwestern.com. October 9, 2001.

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• The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Past, You Re A Liar

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• A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Remarkable, Kissinger

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

  Tea Leoni

  Children, Lying, Brilliant

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, College, Literature

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• My father is a liar and so am I.
  But I’m going to stop. I have to stop.
  I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
  That’s my promise.
  This time I truly mean it.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lying, Father, Mean

  Justine Larbalestier (2010). “How to Ditch Your Fairy”, p.313, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.

  Rivka Galchen

  Dream, Lying, Believe

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

  Jane Rogers

  Jesus, People, Saint

  Jane Rogers (2001). “Island”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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