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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Lying, Media

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

  Joan Robinson

  Learning, Answers, Purpose

  "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Cheating

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Happiness, Writing, Heart

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• Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

  William Cowper

  War, Successful, Solitude

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• People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Long, People, Dupes

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• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Animal, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)”, p.258

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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

  John Tillotson

  Art, Hype, Deception

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• Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Believe, Long, Deceiving

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• If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

  Denis Diderot

  Character, Criticism, Vices

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• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

  Bill Vaughan

  Way, Dupes, Victim

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• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Thinking, Misery, Kind

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Dupes, Greater

  "Characters", V, 1688.

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• Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

  Demosthenes

  Self, Affection, Deceiving

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• A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Mistress, Deceiving, Cunning

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

  Moliere

  Heartbreak, Infidelity, One Love

  "Le Tartuffe" (1664), IV. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 182-183), 1922.

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• Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

  Joanna Baillie

  Thinking, Feet, Soul

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.88

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• There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

  George Eliot

  Infidelity, Deception, Killing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1538, Delphi Classics

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• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Life, Strength, Wisdom

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• Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

  Maria Montessori

  Soul, Deception, Might

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• There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

  Elias Canetti

  Lying, Literature

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• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Law, Parent

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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