Quotes from TV shows re Lying

by blondie 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  Memorable quotes for "Star Trek: The Next Generation"The First Duty (1992)

  Capt. Picard : The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. Now, if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!
  

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  Capt. Picard: You told the truth up to a point. But a lie of omission is still a lie.
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  Goshawk

  Everybody lies about sex. People lie during sex. If it weren't for lies , there'd be no sex.

  -Seinfeld,Jerry

  The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

  -Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Rosa.The RoseTattoo, act 3.

  --------- not on TV

  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  Plato
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  blondie

  It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons

  Carl Sagan:

  One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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  Goshawk

  a bit off-topic

  “Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'” -- Charles M Schultz
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  bluecanary

  "Everyone lies." House