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A good lie is easier to believe than the truth.

—Ferengi Sayings
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

—Alexander Haig
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

—Eric Hoffer
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

—Otto von Bismarck
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

—Thomas Jefferson
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush and aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'

—Michael D. Shear, The Washington Post
The dream that remains a dream is a lie.

—Lars Lilholt
The main thing is that you stop telling lies to yourself. The one who lies to himself and believes his own lies comes to a point where he can distinguish no truth either within himself or around him, and thus enters into a state of disrespect towards himself and others. Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the absence of love he gives himself up to his passions and to vulgar delights and becomes a complete animal in his vices, and all of it from perpetual lying to other people and himself.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

—Noam Chomsky
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

—Marcus Aurelius
I wanted a perfect ending.
Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.

—Gilda Radner
When lies abound, telling the truth is an act of revolution.

—Jonathan Van Voorhees (01/09/2009)
At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.

—Simone de Beauvoir
Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.

—George Costanza
“The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.”

—Rain Bojangles
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken
Kirk: Is there anyone on this ship who, even remotely, looks like Satan?

Spock: I am not aware of anyone who fits that description, Captain.

Kirk: No, Mr. Spock, I didn't think you would be.
Truth lies in between our fact and reality.

—Monk Frost (22/01/2010)
Let me tell you the truth. The truth is, what is. And what should be is a fantasy, a terrible terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

—Lenny Bruce
“I'm glad that people who say "The world is coming to an end." won't be around to say "I told you so!" if it does.”

—Rain Bojangles

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