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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Skills, Two, World

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• Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Generosity, Wicked

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• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  D. A. Carson

  Hate, Wrath, Faces

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• In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Lying, Responsibility

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• A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Honest, Convinced

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• I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

  Ben Bailey

  Funny, Believe, Trying

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• I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

  Rob Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Hate

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

  Sophocles

  Lying, Reflection, Men

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• If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Lying, May, Dupes

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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• A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

  Mark Twain

  Holes, Mines

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• I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, People, Political

  "Russell Brand on revolution: 'We no longer have the luxury of tradition'". www.newstatesman.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

  John Gunther

  Cameras, Our Time

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• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Men, Two

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• When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

  Susan Forward

  Lying, Infidelity, Lovers

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• Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Hundred

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Horse, Radishes

  "Thank You Notes"". Book by Jimmy Fallon, www.today.com. 2011.

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• There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Good Writers

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Blessed

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Fear

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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• The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Truth, Lying, Philosophy

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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• Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Fool, Charlatans

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• It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Doors, Going Away

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• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

  Maynard James Keenan

  Mirrors, Differences, Lawyer

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• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  Zach Braff

  Trials, Fudge, Want

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• Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Sweet, Kissing

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