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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. - Alfred Adler A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Autobiography If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. - Joseph Goebbels The broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. - Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (ch. X), James Murphy translation Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. - Edgar Watson Howe A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") A lie told often enough becomes truth. - Nikolai Vladimir Ilyich Lenin A lie is an excuse guarded. - Jonathan Swift
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