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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
Communication
Creighton Abrams

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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Poetry and Poets
Aristotle

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Lies and Lying
Aristotle

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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Advertising
Tim Bell

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Manners
Malcolm Bradbury

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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Confession
Anita Brookner

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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise
Jean De La Bruyere

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Story and Story-Telling
Jean De La Bruyere

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Truth
Lawrence Durrell

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Moderation
Vera Johnson

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Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
Evangelism
D. T. Niles

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.
Truth
Mal Pancoast

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Leaders and Leadership
Thomas J. Peters

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Prayer
Seneca

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When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Challenges
Margaret Chase Smith

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
Truth
Lionel Strachey

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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
Love
William Butler Yeats

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun