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“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.”

People Shows Feelings Lying Girl Grows Attitude Growing Up Nice Tough Alternatives Shy Lied Realised Unloved Boyish Nice Feeling

Author:Maj Sjowall

“Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.”

Ifs Shows Lying Energy Growth Boys Economic Keys Models Alternatives Fuel Japan Our Future Fossils Economic Growth Fossil Fuel Posters Renewable Energy Burning Fossil Fuels Nukes

Author:David Suzuki

“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .”

Shows Lying Strong Study Records Disease Patient Track Cancer Bones Joints Tissues Track Record Chemotherapy Leukemia

Author:John Diamond

“La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.”

Shows Light Beautiful Lying Values Objects Mets Contrary Twilight Rite

Author:Albert Camus

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.”

People Hard Shows Reality Lying Roles Fashion Paper Photography News Photograph Deception Propaganda Glamorous

Author:Martin Parr

“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.”

Shows Home Lasts Political Lying Half Opinion Wife Months Late Election Radio My Wife Driving Weather Afternoon Freak Traffic Pornography Distortion Half Truth Driving Home Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Moyers

“The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.”

I Can Shows Lying Hate Girl Girlfriend Don't Hate

Author:Justin Bieber

“Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.”

Ifs Stills Shows Problem Running Lying Purpose Modern Capitalism Overcoming Crisis Prosperity Deeper Looming

Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”

Want Shows Moving Lying Secret Mouths Filled Lips Holes Signals

Book:The Ice is Singing

Source: The Ice is Singing

“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.”

“I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.”

Men Mean Two Shows Lying Crosses

Author:Jim Elliot

“You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.”

Should Writing Shows Lying Three Cases Humility Ads Resumes Obituary Write Your Own

Author:David Hayden

“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.”

Men Way Sometimes Matter Hard Shows Hands Together Lying Sound Wind Kings Members Evidence Calm Blow Legs Features Knees Shakes Fierce Alarms Countenance

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Source: .) (1850).

“Surveys show that surveys never lie.”

Shows Lying Data Surveys Never Lie

Book:Woman: An Intimate Geography

Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography

“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.”

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Book:Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

Source: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.”

People Want Giving Long Art Whole Shows Lying Pleasure Imagine Affair Good Times Cheerful Hospitality Embellishment

Author:Isabel Fonseca

“I cant lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. Im so grateful to all my fans. I couldnt do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then its part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Shows Might Jobs Past Lying Talking Fans Grateful Being The Best Cant So Grateful

Author:Chuck Brown

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

Ifs World Philosophy Shows Lying Wish Interest Answers Wonder Increase Asking Surface Daily Life Asking Questions Strangeness Below The Surface

Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House”

Ifs Persons Different Shows Body Lying Three House Language White Groups Twenties White House Psychologist Body Language Indicators

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.”

“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”

“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.”

Source: The spectator