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• An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Breeders, Breeding

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• A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Lying, Truth Is, Brutal

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• It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start.

  Tanya Reinhart

  Powerful, Believe, Israel

  Tanya Reinhart (2011). “Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

  Jaron Lanier

  Struggle, Artist, Manipulation

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Enforcement

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Follow Me, Dangerous

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• Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

  Laurence Overmire

  Overcoming, Honest, Straightforward

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• If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

  Eugene Burger

  Want, Might, Common

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• Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

  Seth Godin

  Art, Practice, Creating

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• We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

  Chris Hedges

  World, Corporations, Profit

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.52, Nation Books

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• The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Heart, Self

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• Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Vastness, Emotion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

  Joni Mitchell

  Night, Voice, Names

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• You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Thinking, Musician, Method

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• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ambition, Men, Violence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

  Brandon Mull

  Eye

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

  Lewis Gordon

  Islands, Swim, Done

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• Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Fun, Littles, Affection

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• Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

  Timothy Ball

  People, Abuse, Bamboozle

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• Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

  Randy Alcorn

  Underwear, Rats, Cheese

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• Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Capitalism

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.256

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• A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Marriage, Agreement, Might

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

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• The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

  Muriel Spark

  Men, Unjust, Causes

  Muriel Spark (1995). “The novels of Muriel Spark”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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