"About no subject are poets tempted to lie……" — Margaret Atwood

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• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was… — Drew Barrymore
• Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.… — Bob Beauprez
• Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as… — Walter Benjamin
• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the… — Alfred Adler
• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. — Alfred Adler

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