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Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. Michael Gove

Law Abandonment Slow Our Lies Seem Greater Traditions May Hanging Common Common Law

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second. Michael Haneke

Lies Per Feature Feature Film Twenty-Four Film Second

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. Michael Haneke

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The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. Michael Korda

Pleasure Lies Crumble Crumbs Make Pattern Cookies

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty. Michelle Alexander

Silence Police Reward Rare Practice Own Difficult Other Lying Ways System Lies Admit Reluctance Structured Mass Partly Because Governs Officers Dishonesty Acknowledge Which Incarceration Derives Exposing Code Largely

President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base. Michiko Kakutani

Fears President President Trump Astonishing Those Worst Abandon Lies Gin Only Equally Narratives His False Trump Up Prejudices Connect Base

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes

Courage Cowardice Valor Lies Between Halfway Just

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. Natalia Makarova

Time Tomorrow Back Lies Boring Excitement Look

As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero. Neal Adams

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So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. Neil deGrasse Tyson

God History People Unknown Religious Lies Cosmic Religious People General Given Tends Boundary Particularly Scientific Discovery Lot Up Handiwork Any Any Given Moment Frontier The History Of Where Urge Across Moment Shows Assert

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it. Nikolai Gogol

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I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' Noah Baumbach

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. Noam Chomsky

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The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. Noreena Hertz

Wisdom Intelligence Problem Words Responsibility Become Addicted Our Lies Supposed Intellect Process Experts Us Certainty

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Octavio Paz

Wisdom Change Neither Lies Between Dialectic Nor Two

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises. Octavio Paz

Sarah Huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day. Omarosa Manigault Newman

Day Country Single Every Lies Single Day Front Sarah Stands Every Single Day

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. Oscar Levant

Phony Lies Real Tinsel Behind Hollywood

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