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TRUE LIES

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 458 B.C.

When events change, I change my mind. What do you do?

Dr. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, Meet the Press, 1970

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, 1890

You can't make this shit up.

David Simon, Creator of The Wire, 2002-08

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain, American Author

God, please don't let me fuck up.

The Fighter Pilot's Prayer, U.S. Air Force

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill, October 1939

On second marriages: The triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.

Vladimir Lenin, 1919, probably apocryphal

Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene I

Everybody’s gotta die sometime, Red.

Sergeant Barnes, Platoon, 1986

I affirm that might is right, justice the interest of the stronger.

Plato, The Republic, 375 B.C.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Robert Hunter, Truckin’, The Grateful Dead, 1970

Haven't you heard, it's a battle of words. And most of them are lies.

Pink Floyd, Us and Them, Misquoted, 1973

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1837

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Narcotics Anonymous, 1981

Never do anything that you wouldn't want your mother to read about in your hometown newspaper.

Bradley West, Deutsche Bank, 1995-1999

Plurality must never be posited without necessity.

William of Occam, 14th century Philosopher and Theologian

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm S. Forbes, As quoted by Earl Wilson, 1972

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Hippocrates

Dead men tell no tales.

John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, 1681

You see, but you do not observe.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Winston Churchill, Cuba, 1895

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Nothing is lost save honor.

Jim Fisk, American Robber Baron, 1869

The first rule of Indonesia business is 'Never steal anything small'.

James M. Hawes, Tryce, 1983

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April 29, 2021

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March 20, 2021

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November 30, 2020

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