"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat."
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"It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
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"The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves."
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"I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards."
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"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."
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"I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself."
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"I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are."
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"Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too."
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"YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously."
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"Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves."
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"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."
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"If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure."
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"Love is a game in which one always cheats."
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"Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?"
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"The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do."
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"He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear."
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"Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating."
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"I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented."
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