All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey
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Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.

Donna A. Favors
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War is based on deception. -Sun-Tzu
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The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Hannah Moore
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Did Doubleday contact Frey? If they did ask him if there was anything there and he lied to them, then [his deception] is even worse.

Morgan Entrekin
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We've seen a decade of deception by Merck. -Mark Lanier
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Leo Rosten
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The truth is there is no $1 billion. This amendment is about deception.

Rep. Shelley Vana
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It was what Mr Lay was saying, what the company was saying. I was trying to keep up the deception as well. -Andrew Fastow
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A pattern of deception and denial, and it is continuing to this day.

Patrick Eddington
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It's time to wake up from the lies. It's time to wake up from the deception.

Dan Webster
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A planner, a schemer, and one capable of deception and dangerous results on his own. -Jonathan Shapiro
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It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

Terry Mcmillan
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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Motherwell
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It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there. -Karen Peters
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Deception of voters has become an accepted tactic.

Washington Post
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The contract was executed and signed in the dark, and it's just been one deception after another.

Eugene Korn
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