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lying long black
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Edsger Dijkstra
lying ocean sleep
Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep! Allen Tate
lying tales betray
A false tale often betrays itself. Aesop
lying men justice
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. Abraham Lincoln
lying self strange
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne
lying sin
Lying is the greatest of all sins. Alfred Nobel
lying blessing healthy
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings. Aldo Leopold
lying wilderness values
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
lying past government
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments. Aldous Huxley
wish died
I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her. Ernest Hemingway
wish may constitution
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures. George Washington
wish answers rich
I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything. Jim Carrey
wish action remember
Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen. Jennifer Young
wish
I wish I were more disciplined. Jeff Bridges
wish followers
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! Friedrich Nietzsche
wish true-and-false orthodoxy
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. George Bernard Shaw
wish morality knows
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
wish defined
I never wish to be easily defined. Franz Kafka