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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

    1. We are here to help you.
    2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
    3. The dress code will be enforced.
    4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
    5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
    6. We expect more of you here.
    7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
    8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
    9. Your locker combination is private.
    10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

    TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

    1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
    2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
    3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
    4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
    5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
    6. We are enforcing the dress code.
    7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
    8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
    9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
    10. We want to hear what you have to say.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #6
    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #7
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #8
    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    George Washington

  • #11
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    Patti Callahan Henry
    “Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.”
    Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

  • #14
    Graham Greene
    “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
    Graham Greene

  • #15
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    George Carlin

  • #16
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #17
    “When you're in your darkest place, you give yourself hope and that's inner strength.”
    Uncle Iroh

  • #18
    “Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.”
    Uncle Iroh

  • #19
    “Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
    General Iroh

  • #20
    “If you look for the light, you can often find it.But if you look for the dark that is all you will ever see.”
    Iroh

  • #21
    “Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else”
    Uncle Iroh

  • #22
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #25
    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    Herbert Hoover

  • #26
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #27
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    Plato

  • #28
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #29
    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #30
    Sun Tzu
    “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
    Sun Tzu



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