"He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies."

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Source : 'The Art of Political Lying' (1712) p. 19

John Arbuthnot

#Lying Quotes #Party Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.”
“So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.”
“I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.”
“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”
“The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.”
“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.”
“In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.”
“All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low....”

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