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Tag Name "Deceiving" (385)

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When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.
Daniel Keyes
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For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.
Paul Virilio
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
Samuel Johnson
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Looks are deceiving, Risa says. After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
Neal Shusterman
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Color deceives continuously.
Josef Albers
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[T]he central problem of government is a religious one and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions
H. Verlan Andersen
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If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.
Rumi
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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire
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Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
Fiona Apple
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment.
Crystal Reed
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
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In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Pierre Bayle
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
Victoria Moran
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Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Wes Fesler
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler
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Appearances may be deceiving.
Aesop
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
Charles Bukowski
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deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
Harriet Lerner
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Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.
Kwame Dawes
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