Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Halldór Laxness
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Eins var algengt hjá okkur ef spurt var um líðan einhvers manns: iss hann er feitur; en það þýddi að honum liði vel, eða einsog sagt mundi vera í Danmörku, að hann væri hamingjusamur. Ef einhverjum leið illa, þá var sagt sem svo: æ það hálfsér á honum; og væri sá nær dauða en lífi sem um var rætt, þá var sagt: æ það er í er í honum einhver lurða. Ef einhver var um það bil að verða ellidauður, þá var sagt: æjá hann er hættur að bleyta smjörið. Um þann sem lá banaleguna var sagt: já hann er nú að berja nestið auminginn. Um dauðvona ungling var sagt að það liti ekki út fyrir að hann ætti að kemba hærurnar.

Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing
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Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

Joseph Joubert
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Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.

Halldór Laxness
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...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. If I can keep my sheep alive through winter and can pay what has been stipulated from year to year - then I pay what has been stipulated; and I have kept my sheep alive. No, it is freedom that we are all after, Titla. He who pays his way is a king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace.

Halldór Laxness
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

Dana Goodyear
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I'd rather be an unhappy principled man than a happy person with a lax conscience.

Jorge P. Guerrero
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Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

Leonard Gardner, Fat City
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

Kamala Harris
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While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs And Prophets
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Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier
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