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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.


Samuel Johnson
Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
Nancy A. Collins
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In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?
Virginia Postrel
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers
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Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Richard Dooling
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.


Walter Annenberg
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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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We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
Jonathan Sacks
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.


Carlos Ghosn
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.


Oliver Cromwell
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I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.
Anika Noni Rose
Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
Naveen Andrews
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.


Lord Byron
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.


Ben Jonson
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.


Galileo Galilei
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I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.
Dylan Moran
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson