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Tag Name "Deception" (379)

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All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.
Wendy Beckett
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley
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What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called strategic self-deception. The kind of self-deception that you can engage in with your eyes wide open. You do it because you say, There's things that I couldn't accomplish without this kind of self-decepti
Clancy Martin
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When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.
Paulo Coelho
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
Christina, Queen of Sweden
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
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Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.
Sivananda
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Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception. One falls in it To deceive the other
Amit Abraham
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
Henry Rollins
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
Pema Chodron
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Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe
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It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Publilius Syrus
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Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
Kevin Mitnick
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Don't tell me of deception a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Samuel Johnson
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Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
Robert Greene
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Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.
Marvin Olasky
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers
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The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.
Stefan Zweig
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When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
Abbi Glines
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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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