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“Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.”

Needs Wells Sometimes Lying Order Fields Gains Nutrients

Author:Cheech Marin

“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom”

May Important Earth Lying Purpose Space Position Weapons Gains Ultimate Tyranny Aviation Air Power Airpower

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

People Thinking May Lying Speak Gains Speak The Truth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.”

Trying Political Lying Individual Politician Gains Blame Faults Greedy

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”

Mean Lying Dies Chance Gains Scientist Sake Personal Gain

Author:Greg Egan

“But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.”

Pain Lying Comfort Gains Worthy

Book:Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion

Source: Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion

“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”

Lying Black Gains Punishment Cowardice

Book:Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

Source: Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

“Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.”

Mind Lying Suffering Despair Anxiety Conscience Gains Torture Ecstasy Restless Macbeth Play Macbeth Sleep Macbeth Motif Darkness In Macbeth

Author:William Shakespeare