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• None are deceived but they that confide.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deceit, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Heaven, Disguise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.188, Harvard University Press

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• The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Simple, World Love, Forgiving

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

  John le Carre

  Children, Mistake, Home

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• Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

  Aristotle

  Believe, People, Trying

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• In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

  Casey Affleck

  Trying, Deceiving, Theater

  "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Self, Deception, Form

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• As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

  Theodor Adorno

  Successful, People, Done

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• He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Doe, Bliss

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• The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, War, America

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.

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• We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

  Paul Washer

  Sheep, Years, People

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• The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Rights, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Light, Long, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Spain, Population

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• There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Educational, Atheism

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• The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Liberty, Movement

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• We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Deceiving Others, Dishonesty

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• We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humanity, Desire, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

  James E. Faust

  Honesty, Book, Israel

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• If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.

  Orson Pratt

  Honesty, Deception, World

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• Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.

  Stephen Potter

  Morning, Golf, Boys

  Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

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• You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

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• The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

  Joan Robinson

  Learning, Answers, Deceit

  "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)

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• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Heart, Simplicity

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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