"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

Deception, Devil, Temptation, Morality

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

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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."

Sarah Palin, American Politician

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"You can trust bad liars."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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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."

Gary Hopkins, American Author

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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."

Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer

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

Edward V. Lucas, American Writer

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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."

Holly Black, American Author

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"If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies."

Holly Black, American Author

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"Lies make for pathetic allies."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline."

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"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

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"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."

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"You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it."

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"God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory."

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"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."

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