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There's a degree of deception in silence.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

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We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

When your art fails, make better art.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?