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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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liars
self-deception
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Rudyard Kipling |
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Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
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women
politics
liars
preachers
sociopathology
sociopaths
narcissists
manipulation
narcissism
politicians
men-and-women
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...
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karr
liars
mary
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Mary Karr |
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Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
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lying
lies
liars
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John Steinbeck |
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"The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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irresponsible
liars
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George Eliot |
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But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
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lies
melkor
liars
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
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honesty
truth
liars
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G.K. Chesterton |
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Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie--they see nothing wrong with it.
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lies
politics
sociopathy
liars
sociopaths
politicians
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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...oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.
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liars
oaths
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Herman Melville |
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Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing? You answered... I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act. You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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liars
obligation
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Orson Scott Card |
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Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
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liars
lawyers
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Donna Leon |