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    Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

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    Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

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    Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

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    Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

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    Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

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    Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

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    Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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    Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

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    Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

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    My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

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    My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

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    My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

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    Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

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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.

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    Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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    No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

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    No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

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    No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

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    Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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    Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

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    Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

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    No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

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    Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

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    One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

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    One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

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    One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

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    Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

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    Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

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    Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

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    People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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    Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

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    Patience protects you from deception

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    Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

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    Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

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    Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

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    Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and they may be required to conduct themselves privately in a way that does not undermine their public authority; on the other hand, they have permission to engage in deceptions, invasions of privacy and uses of force that are forbidden to the rest of us. But this does not put them beyond common morality.

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    Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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    Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

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    Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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    Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

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    Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

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    Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

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    Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

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    Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

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    Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

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    Self-deception helps us deceive.

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    Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

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    Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

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    Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

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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.