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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist (1879-1955)

There’s a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

Will Arnett

Canadian and American actor and comedian (born 1970)

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Vaclav Havel

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936-2011)

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

American writer

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Peter Schuyler

They used to say, ‘If we find a good black player, we’ll sign him.’ They was lying.

Cool Papa Bell

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

Vincent Bugliosi

American lawyer and true crime writer

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795-1881)

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butler

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