Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."
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"It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique."
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"I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up."
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"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."
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"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."
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"All war is based on deception."
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"People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype."
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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
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"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."
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"...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town."
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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
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"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
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"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."
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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work."
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"Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree."
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"Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working."
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