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• The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Thinking, Two

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• War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

  John McCain

  War, Loss, Reality

  "Mark Shields: A much different war for a changed nation", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2002.

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• That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from Pagan authors, is well known to every scholar... To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserted either gross ignorance or wilful fraud.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Writing

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.166

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• It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Fear, War, Struggle

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  War, Ignorance, Men

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• EITC is an invitation to fraud.

  Newt Gingrich

  Taxes, Invitations, Tax Reform

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• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Humility, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, People, Remember

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

  Russell Brand

  Liars, Mean, People

  "Russell Brand on revolution: 'We no longer have the luxury of tradition'". www.newstatesman.com. October 24, 2013.

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• No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

  David Platt

  Writing, Hands, Long

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.124, Tyndale House

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• These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Pious

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.287

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• China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

  Muddy Waters

  Technology, Valleys, China

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• Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Voice, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1857). “The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.463

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• To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Competition, Deception, Tasks

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• Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

  Norm Coleman

  Oil, Reform, Needs

  "Rice says U.S. still supports Annan". www.washingtontimes.com. September 9, 2005.

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• Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Liars, Heart, Men

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• Whatcha gonna do to this?
  You may be older than me, but you're new to this.
  Cause I been out there, queen of MC's,
  When your man was walkin' round in mocknecks and Lee's.
  While you were over here perpetratin' a fraud,
  I was overseas on the charts with Boy George.
  You're the beginner, Shante's the winner,
  Havin' other competition for dinner.
  Sit you on the table with a plate and cup,
  Say grace...and then eat your ass up.

  Roxanne Shante

  Queens, Rap, Boys

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• A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Hypocrite, Reality

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.192, Discovery House

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• Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Healing, School

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• We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

  Anne Lamott

  Cancer, Silence, Comfort

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• The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

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• I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

  Scott Lynch

  Unique, Thinking, Epic

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• It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Heart, Fans, Matter

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