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• I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

  Larry Hagman

  Dallas, Deceptive

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• I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

  Elizabeth I

  Deception, Praying, Hours

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• Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

  Mary J. Blige

  Love You, Views, People

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• Appearances are often deceiving.

  Aesop

  Literature, Appearance, Deceiving

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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.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Gentleman, Trying, Half

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• I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

  Joe Biden

  Numbers, Support, President

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer", January 9, 2005.

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Men, Wicked

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

  William J. Clinton

  Food, Mcdonalds, Political

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• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Careers, Judging

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• Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Games, Quality

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

  Guy Debord

  Deceit, World, Natural

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Deception

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

  Mark Cuban

  Real, Technology, Attention

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• It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Couple, Believe, Fall

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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.

  Rene Descartes

  Trust, Deceived Us, Perception

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• The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

  Harry Shearer

  White, House, Guy

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• People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, Over You, President

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• Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Thinking, Expectations

  "Gates opens CES with Scorn". www.wired.com. January 5, 2006.

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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Deceit

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,
  And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
  But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike,
  Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

  LL Cool J

  Running, Real, Rap

  Song: 4, 3, 2, 1

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• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Discipline, Employment

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

  Todd Solondz

  Self, Bridges, Deception

  "Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic". Book by Bob Spencer, p. 81, 2012.

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• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

  David Bohm

  Real, Learning, Knowledge

  David Bohm, Mark Edwards (1991). “Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world”, Harpercollins

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Hope, Art

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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