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

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

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

“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

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

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

“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

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

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
― Albert Einstein

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

“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

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

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

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

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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

“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

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

“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

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

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“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

“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

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

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

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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

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

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
― Sun Tzu