Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Quote by Graham Greene

Topics: Challenge Quotes, Success Quotes, Truth Quotes

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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

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