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“Liebes Fräulein, ich kenne Sie noch nicht. Trotzdem, oder vielleicht gerade deswegen, möchte ich Ihnen für den Umgang mit Menschen eine Arbeitshypothese anvertrauen, die sich bewährt hat. Es handelt sich um eine Theorie, die nicht richtig zu sein braucht. Aber sie führt in der Praxis zu verwendbaren Ergebnissen." "Und wie lautet Ihre Hypothese?" "Man halte hier jeden Menschen, mit Ausnahme der Kinder und Greise, bevor das Gegenteil nicht unwiderleglich bewiesen ist, für verrückt. Richten Sie sich danach, Sie werden bald erfahren, wie nützlich der Satz sein kann. "Soll ich bei Ihnen damit beginnen?", fragte sie. "Ich bitte darum", meinte er.”

“Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.”

“Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.”

“Liegen doet iedereen. Liegen is ook niet verboden. Ik ken de tien geboden niet, maar het zou mij verbazen als 'Gij zult niet liegen' erbij stond. Gij zult natuurlijk wel liegen en als u beweert dat u nooit liegt, dan liegt u. Liegen doet iedereen. Maar het zou onjuist zijn als ik was begonnen met: 'Iedereen liegt.' Veel mensen denken dat zij altijd de waarheid spreken. Zij vergissen zich, maar zij zijn geen leugenaars. Ikzelf ben een overtuigd leugenaar. Het leven noodzaakt mij om geregeld de waarheid te spreken, maar ik doe dat met weinig vreugde. De waarheid! Wat saai, wat vervelend, hoe overbodig! De waarheid is voor iedereen en altijd hetzelfde. Maar de leugen is altijd weer oorspronkelijk en interessant.”

“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.”

“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.”

“Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.”

“Lies. All lies. Bree was shaking so hard she bit her tongue, but she didn’t even feel the blood in her mouth. Kill her husband and seduce the widow. She thought she’d never felt as angry as when Michael died, but this, oh God, her entire body was a live wire of rage. She was so furious, she was almost numb. So numb that she didn’t even feel herself reaching for the gun she had pulled out of the glove compartment and pocketed. So numb that she didn’t feel herself lift the gun and aim. So numb that she saw nothing, but his eyes, staring back at her in wide eyed surprise and confusion. She felt so numb she didn’t even feel herself pull the trigger.”

“Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.”