"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."
"Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work."
"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."
"Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working."
"We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype."
"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love."
"People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation."
"It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived."
"I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that."
"In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them."
"Appearances are often deceiving."
"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics."
"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception."
"The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money."
"It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots."
"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
"The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application."