"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."

Deception, Truth, Performance, Wit

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"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."

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"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."

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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

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"I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today."

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"You can trust bad liars."

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"When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense."

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"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

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

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"She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying."

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"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."

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"Photos're better than nothing, but things're better than photos 'cause the things themselves were part of what was there."

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"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."

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"This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves."

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"Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!"

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"But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block..."

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"The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature."

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"Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay."

Perspective

"Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level."

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"In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats."

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"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."

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