#deceive

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceived #never #ourselves

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— William Hazlitt

#being #deceived #deception #habitual #life

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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