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Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.
Anchee Min
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.


Andy Rooney
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A. S. Byatt
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
Matt Dillon
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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
Tom Shadyac
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'


Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Half a truth is often a great lie.


Benjamin Franklin
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.


Thomas Mann
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Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
Laura Schlessinger
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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.


Grace Slick
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.


Sparky Anderson
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.


Henri Frederic Amiel
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?


Anthony Hope
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.


Willem Dafoe
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
Nancy Reagan
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It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.


Roger Wicker