#liar

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. ↗

— David Attenborough

#commercials #figure #i #liar #motherhood

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with. ↗

— Trace Adkins

#familiar #get #great #hour #minutes

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#acts #does #every #fate #his

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ↗

— Aesop

#even #liar #speaks #truth #will

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. ↗

— Tim Allen

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