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"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
Robert Jordan
"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
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"You can trust bad liars."
Toba Beta
"You can trust bad liars."
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"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."
Anthony Liccione
"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."
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"The darkness always lies."
Anthony Liccione
"The darkness always lies."
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"Lies make for pathetic allies."
T. F. Hodge
"Lies make for pathetic allies."
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"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
Sophocles
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
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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."
David Mitchell
"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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"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
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"There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth."
Veronica Roth
"There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth."
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"You can't play "How will you do it... if you are on my place..." - Now you feel comfortable from that side... you feel that it's right from your side... so you put that as a peace in the recipe and some extra ingredients you add and look you just created the best lie as being in my state."
Deyth Banger
"You can't play "How will you do it... if you are on my place..." - Now you feel comfortable from that side... you feel that it's right from your side... so you put that as a peace in the recipe and some extra ingredients you add and look you just created the best lie as being in my state."
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"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."
George R. R. Martin
"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."
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"Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death."
Robert Jordan
"Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.On my shoulders I support the sky.Trust me to know and to do what is best,And I will take care of the rest.But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.Trust is the color of death.Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,for I must bear the burden alone.Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.Trust is the sound of death."
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"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
Charles Van Doren
"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
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"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."
Criss Jami
"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."
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"There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books."
Maggie Stiefvater
"There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books."
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"Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals."
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"Our miracle centered gospel is what has turned our people into scammers."
Sunday Adelaja
"Our miracle centered gospel is what has turned our people into scammers."
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"Old liarshold lies."
Toba Beta
"Old liarshold lies."
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"A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness."
Sunday Adelaja
"A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness."
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"Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception."
Sunday Adelaja
"Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception."
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"We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve."
Jayson Williams
"We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve."
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"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."
William Shakespeare
"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."
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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
"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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"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself."
Charles Dickens
"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself."
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"The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment."
Sunday Adelaja
"The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment."
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"One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know."
Israelmore Ayivor
"One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know."
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"There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at times. He doesn't charge on the scene clothed in red and wearing a hideous mask but charms his way as an "angel of light". This is how Satan operates."
Billy Graham
"There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at times. He doesn't charge on the scene clothed in red and wearing a hideous mask but charms his way as an "angel of light". This is how Satan operates."
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"I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't."
Kim Novak
"I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't."
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"And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
William Shakespeare
"And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
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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
"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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"Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work."
Sunday Adelaja
"Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work."
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"When you live in darkness, you live under the ruler-ship of the devil."
Sunday Adelaja
"When you live in darkness, you live under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
Susan Sontag
"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
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"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."
Edward V. Lucas
"Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception."
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"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
Spiro T. Agnew
"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
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"What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer? Sazed asked."I'd think that you were lying, Vin said."Have you known me to lie before?"The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time."
Brandon Sanderson
"What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer? Sazed asked."I'd think that you were lying, Vin said."Have you known me to lie before?"The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time."
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"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
David Levithan
"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
William Shakespeare
"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
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"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."
John Ruskin
"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don't believe that hard work is worth it."
Sunday Adelaja
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don't believe that hard work is worth it."
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"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude."
Marcel Proust
"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude."
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"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
Adrienne Rich
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
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"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
Adelbert von Chamisso
"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
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"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."
Sophocles
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."
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"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
Ovid
"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
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"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
Ovid
"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
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"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
William Shakespeare
"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
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"Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
Charles Caleb Colton
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
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