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Tag Name "Deception" (379)

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Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
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The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
Ann Druyan
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Sorry, am I being rude? she asks. I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
Veronica Roth
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
Pema Chodron
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You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, That is politics nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones.
Ezra Taft Benson
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture
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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
Andrew Wyeth
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
Andrew Bird
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
Walel Watson
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Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
Walel Watson
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Hugo Black
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
Walter Keane
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The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Wes Fesler
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Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Alexei Panshin
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Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
Alexander Schmemann
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Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.
Alexander Rodchenko
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
Sam Harris
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Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
William C. Brown
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