Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Writer, Political Activist
"We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back."
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down."
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"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
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"What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself. But that's rarely the case. The elements of a subject that speak to us are often scattered and can't be captured in one photo; we don't have the right to force them together, and to stage them would be cheating...which brings us to the need for photojournalism."
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"You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole."
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"Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."
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"Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure."
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"If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation."
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"Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."
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"I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife"
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"At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done."
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"Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents."
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"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you."
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."
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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."
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"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
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"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
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"Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation."
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
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"behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire."
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
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