If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

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Attributed to Goebbels in Publications Relating to Various Aspects of Communism (1946), by United States Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities. No reliable source has been located, and this is probably simply a further variation of the Big Lie idea. | If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. | If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. | If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. | If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth. | If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it. | Attributed in The Sack of Rome (2006) by Alexander Stille, p. 14, and also attributed in A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (2003) by Mike Moore, p. 63.

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