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

January 1, 1970

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Variants: — 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 a