Aaron Sorkin Quotes, Lying Quotes, Hero Quotes

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

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A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

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Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.

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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

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One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

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Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. I would be lying if I said that the fact that I had been on a very popular sci-fi show and had some recognition in that world didn't help me get the job on another sci-fi show.

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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