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• EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.6, e-artnow

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• I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Girlfriend, People, Grumpy

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• The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

  Julian Assange

  Police, Crime, Made

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Struggle, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I remember running around the park as a kid and pretending, shouting out 'Michael Owen in the cup final. He scores!' To actually fulfil that dream when you're older and score two goals made it just a magical day.

  Michael Owen

  Running, Dream, Kids

  Source: www.insidefutbol.com

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• The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.

  Jerry Garcia

  Reality, People, Different

  Source: medium.com

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• There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

  Jonathan Chait

  Elements, Entertainment, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the biggest misconception about mathematics is that everybody has to learn it. That seems to be a complete mistake. All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless. To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

  Freeman Dyson

  Teacher, Children, Mistake

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, Illumination, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ideas, Fake

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• Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

  Alfred Marshall

  Running, Simple, Long

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

  Bre Pettis

  Knowing, Accepting, Knows

  Bre Pettis, Anna Kaziunas France, Jay Shergill (2012). “Getting Started with MakerBot”, p.184, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

  Emily Browning

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  "Emily Browning’s East End Girl". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2015.

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• They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

  Ben Hecht

  Kindness, Heart, Fighting

  "Nothing Sacred", 1937.

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• We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

  Ron Paul

  Important, Tunes, Dollars

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• It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

  Zach Gilford

  Running, Night, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So, to that essence, it's still pretending. But it's worked out ok so far, touch wood, because you're doing so many different things - if you're playing a lawyer or someone medical, you can dip your toe into a lot of different things.

  Christine Bottomley

  Baby, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

  Keanu Reeves

  Children, People, Way

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• Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

  Anne Lamott

  Good Friend, Doe, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.124, Penguin

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• My colleagues across the aisle in Brooklyn and team Clinton are very smart people. I respect them very much. But they misread America. They, they did not have her in red states. They, they were pretending that they were going to turn red blue.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Smart, Team, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

  Nicole Richie

  Design, Events, Looks

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• For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Men, Years, Path

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• There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

  Pope Leo X

  Fighting, Eternal Life, Earnest

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• Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

  Craig Ferguson

  Heaven, Campaigns, Mud

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• It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.

  David Limbaugh

  War, Iraq, Needs

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