Deception Quotes
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Their style emphasized four bedrock principles: Surprise Aggressiveness Deception The leader’s personal presence in the battle.
Hal Moore
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The 'passion for incredulity' can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
Colin Wilson
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A 'just war' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Cockburn
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If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.
Carl Sagan
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Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John Wanamaker
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
Vladimir Lenin
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Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
Walel Watson
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and American an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure? — March 15, 2004
Jeff Gannon
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Cover-ups and deception are the nature of this society. Without lies it won’t exist.
Ai Weiwei
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Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson
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She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.
P. C. Cast
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.
Zicheng Hong
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As was the case in 'Darth Plagueis' - even going back as far as 'Cloak of Deception' - I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called 'men's adventure' fiction.
James Luceno
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)
A. S. Byatt
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
Teju Cole
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin
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Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
Kevin Mitnick
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Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.
David Jeremiah
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles
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You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
Van Dyke Parks