#lie

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#anyone #believe #department #expected #freedom

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#been #begin #casualty #first #lie

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#future #leave #lives #only #open

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#average #believe #customers #doing #eighty

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#drowning #human #human civilization #lies #sea

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#i #lessons #sing #singing #singing lessons

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#america #believe #country #define #difference

I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here. ↗

— Steve Spurrier

#biggest #biggest problem #coaches #here #i

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination