“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.” IfsYearsDoeLyingGivenPayLandConditionsFieldsProduceProductsReturnGardenPlantOwnersGardener Author:Hammurabi
“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.” ThinkingMenHumansMadeLife IsLyingSocialKnowingProductsSpeechHuman LifePhysiological Book:Mist: A Tragicomic Novel Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel
“You cannot lie ever, because a lie destroys the credibility of the product, and credibility is more important than anything. Credibility's even more important than clarity.” ImportantLyingProductsClarityCredibility Author:Frank Luntz
“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.” KnowsMenWorldWayRealityLyingPoorPracticeProductsIdealsPerfectionScalesAlasApproximation Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.” ThinkingWantLittlesFactsProblemLyingFallEasyBitsNaturalLinesDarkAudienceProductsHairReaderLittle BitHumorousBrandsConsumersPerceiveIronyBottlesInherentShelvesNo ProblemWant UShampooSubtextBeauty Products Author:Aaron Belz
“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.” ActionLyingForceIssuesRocksProductsDepthPrimitivePetroleumDistillation Author:Alexander von Humboldt