Deception follows on the heels of deception.


Lord Alfred Tennyson

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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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War is based on deception.
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War is based on deception.
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All warfare is based on deception.
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Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
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Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
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The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible
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Deception starts from the pulpit
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Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
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All war is deception.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Love is the doorway to deception...
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The facts are near to deception!
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Assumption from Perception creates Deception
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Self-deception helps us deceive,
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An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
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There are infinite forms of deception in beauty.
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Deception of voters has become an accepted tactic.
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We've seen a decade of deception by Merck.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
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Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.
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Without a period of deception, the truth would have no value.
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Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
Love is a deception practice by nature.
WILL DURANT
Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.
DASHANNE STOKES
What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.
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Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
ARMENIAN PROVERB
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for...
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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselve...
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen t...
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I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the publ...
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Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a ...
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He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want...
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There was a period of sort of minor deception. Then the book seemed to be being advertised initially...
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The Secretary of State's summary providing that the initiative 'bans human cloning' is an attempted ...
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We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be...
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The contract was executed and signed in the dark, and it's just been one deception after another.
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
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It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.
KAREN PETERS
The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.
HAYLEY SOLICH
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
ORRIN WOODWARD
Faulty mindset reveals a great deception regarding the destiny of every believer
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL
Men still have to be governed by deception.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Breakthrough focused gospel leads to lies and deception
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
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The faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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People who indulge in the acts of deception and debauchery are devoid of success.
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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
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You are the embodiment of truth itself because you are devoid of deception and treachery.
RIG VEDA
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
SUNDAY ADELAJA
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Pride is the railway tracks on which all sin runs and the locomotive that pulls it all is Deception.
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He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday even...
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Denial is a swift and deep current beneath the mental landscape.
RAIN BOJANGLES
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
LAURYN HILL
Deception equals lesson and experience and the first impression remains always in memory.
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES
The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out
GEORGE CARLIN
The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my &#...
DEBBIE MACOMBER
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
OSCAR WILDE
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes...
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to...
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His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
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It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.
TERRY MCMILLAN
By falsehood and deception, none have found Him. Whatever you plant, you shall eat.
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The only time I don't have a trick up my sleeve is when I am not wearing a shirt.
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost t...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,/ But never a moment ceased th...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bou...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowin...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on whic...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Believing where we cannot prove.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The woman is so hard upon the woman
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON