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" A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. "

Marina Tsvetaeva

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. "

" 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

" All warfare is based on deception. "

" An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud. "

" Deception is everywhere. "

" Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. "

" From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. "

George McGovern

" I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't. "

" If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception. "

" If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. "

" Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. "

Maximillian Degenerez

" In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. "

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

" I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception. "

" It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes. "

" I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. "

Charles Van Doren

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

William Hazlitt

" Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. "

" Men still have to be governed by deception. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" Neuroscientists are novices at deception. "

" Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. "

" Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. "

" One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected. "

" People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? "

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