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• It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

  David Maraniss

  Reading, Lines, Bills

  1995 On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.

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• There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reality, Complacency, Looks

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Grief, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.180

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• Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Intuition, Logic

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.154, The Floating Press

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• As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Air, Usual

  Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.192, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Grief

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

  Gayle Forman

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.20, Penguin

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• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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• Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

  Jodhi May

  Believe, Self, Way

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• Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Light, Normal

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, Way

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• I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Criminals, Worried

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Philosophy, Academic Life, Training

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

  Heraclitus

  Thinking, Sight, Disease

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• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

  Kabir

  Hammers, Bears, Admire

  "Bijak". Sakhi, 168. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,

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• This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?

  Paul Washer

  People, Sensual, Today

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• Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.

  David Livingstone

  War, Mirrors, Self

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• Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

  Jean Stapleton

  Prejudice, Cost, Daily Life

  "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

  E. J. Dionne

  Voters, Fool, Republican

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• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  David D. Burns

  Self Esteem, Believe, Persistence

  David D. Burns, M.D. (2013). “Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

  Ned Rorem

  Memories, Flower, Keys

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Distance, Perspective, Criticism

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