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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

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With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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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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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

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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

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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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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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