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“It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.”

Ifs Trying Jobs Lying Politician Cost Ears Peter

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.”

World Stills Two Lying Middle Cost Thirds Oil East Prize Middle East Lowest

Author:Dick Cheney

“The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.”

People Firsts America Lying Lines Liberty Economic Security Cost Protection Defense Agreement Economic Security

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”

Men Needs Giving Earth Lying Hours Pleasure Existence Fantasy Civilization Cost Giving Up Increase Dear Treated Luxury Our Time Fraud Rebel Indispensable Superfluous Unsatisfied

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.”

Lying Cost Initials Upkeep

Author:Emilie Loring

“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Feels Years Littles Has Beens Done Lying Next House Social Easy Cost Percent Tools Income Idiot Proven Next Year Mortgage House Prices

Author:Howard Warren Buffett