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I can deal with anything, as long as I know it’s the truth. It’s the lies that are hard.

—Jennifer Laurens in Penitence

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The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.

—Rain Bojangles

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

—Samuel Butler

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

—Saki

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

—George Orwell

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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

—Wilson Mizner

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

—Samuel Johnson

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The perjurer's mother told white lies.

—Austin O'Malley

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That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

—George Orwell

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It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all.

—Thomas Merton

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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

—Ann Landers

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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older — namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

—Hannah Arendt

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