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“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguis...”
“My stepmother is not only powerful because the people fear her, she is powerful because she can make them love her when she needs them to. We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are on...”
“A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. Its weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.”
“There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.”
“Round numbers are always false.”
“False in one thing false in everything”
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.”
“Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.”
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
“Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton”
“RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”
“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falseho...”
“A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.”
“You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of b...”
“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”
“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disgui...”
“A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.”
