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• Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

  Allan Sherman

  Grandma, Winning, Luck

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Writing, Way

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

  Jean Genet

  Adventure, Games, Tragedy

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• I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Believe, School

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Mistake, Mean, Men

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• You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

  Don Shula

  Hard Work, Numbers, Goal

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• Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

  Michael Baisden

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Michael Baisden (1995). “Never Satisfied: How/why Men Cheat”, Legacy Pub

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• I think the Patriots actually live by the saying, 'If you're not cheating, you're not trying.'

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Thinking, Trying, Patriot

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• Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

  Anne Grant

  Wife, Cheated

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• Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Vote, Cheated

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• Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

  Elliott Smith

  Chaos, Drag

  Song: Baby Britain, Album: XO

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• I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mistake, Eye, Artist

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• I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

  Robert Urich

  Careers, Done, Bouquets

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• I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

  Johnny Ramone

  Has Beens

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.11, Abrams

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• Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.

  P. C. Cast

  Cat, Thinking, Squares

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Done, Body

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• And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

  Suzanne Collins

  Joy, Bedtime, Said

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Giving

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

  Stephen Levine

  Appreciation, Lying, Fire

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• If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

  Paul Merton

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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• My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

  Frederik Pohl

  Firsts, Cigarette, Cheated

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• I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

  Ester Dean

  Song, Writing, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

  Lindsey Graham

  Lying, Ambition, Nuclear

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

  Gemma Halliday

  Girl, Fall, Earthquakes

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• Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.

  Brook Benton

  Lying, Feelings, Low Self Esteem

  Song: Lie to Me

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