"If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong."
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""There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.""
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"That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception."
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"No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid."
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"Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion."
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception."
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"It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge."
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"The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception."
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"Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people."
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"Magic things are fond of deceptions."
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"To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception."
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"If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image."
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"We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others."
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"In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust."
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"You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else."
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"The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them."
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"The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others."
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"Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere."
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"Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception."
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"The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts."
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