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• We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Believe, Trying

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Atheist, Book

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• I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

  Count Basie

  Music, Cat, Boys

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Opposites, Skills, Personal Qualities

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

  Peter Singer

  Bears, Grudge, Enough

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Car, Farming, Mayors

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Clouds, Sneakers, Lunch

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.19, Penguin

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• There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents practice being grown ups and practice for adult morality. I remember when I was 15 and people were starting to date and someone cheated on someone. They'd say, 'He cheated on her. You know what they say, once a cheater always a cheater.'

  Greta Gerwig

  Cheater, People, Morality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Kind, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of two things when the guy you're dating isn't really ready to commit. He's an a**hole and he's cheating on you; bottom line he's an immoral dude. Or, he's too young. And the advice I give to everybody night in and night out is: Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

  Michael Catherwood

  Night, Men, Dating

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• Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Lying, Stealing, Commonplace

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• Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Accepted

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Self, Firsts

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Country, Grief, Wife

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Humility, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Running, Jealous, Fighting

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

  Owen Jones

  Girl, Husband, Wife

  Owen Jones (2015). “An Exciting Future”, p.23, XinXii

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• If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Lying, Parent, Lust

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• I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!

  Sarah Weeks

  Believe, School, Writing

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• In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Death, Fighting, Men

  Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• They say if you get her, you could understand her better and she known to be a cheater, but that's only if you let her.

  Drake

  Humble, Cheater, Ifs

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• behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Ice, Fire

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• Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Motivational, Morning, Yesterday

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• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Understanding, Oratory, Speech

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.170, e-artnow

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• When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

  Peter Norvig

  Team, School, Team Work

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