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Tag Name "Deception" (379)

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
Francis Bacon
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory Maguire
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What else exhausts like sustained deception?
Leif Enger
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
Errol Morris
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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
Pema Chodron
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I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
Noam Chomsky
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.
Christopher Hampton
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Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
Henry David Thoreau
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen
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Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
Orrin Woodward
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
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I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?
Karen Marie Moning
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With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.
Mary McCarthy
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Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
Bill Johnson
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Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
Robert Greene
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The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.
Judith Martin
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Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
James Jesus Angleton
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Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
Michael Novak
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When your art fails, make better art.
Seth Godin
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self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
Louise Colet
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