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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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Hidden truths are unspoken lies
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major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.
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Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.
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When you distort the truth, you weaken your credibility.
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By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.
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Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
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It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
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Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.
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A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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Veiling truth in mystery.
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
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Manipulated, one manipulates others.
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Once a lie is told, you have to keep on telling it. You not only have to repeat it time and time again, you have to embellish it, layer upon layer until you don't even remember the truth.
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There is consistency in the truth and confusion in lies.
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Immaculate Deception.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
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When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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What else exhausts like sustained deception?
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A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
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Deception starts from the pulpit
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
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Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
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Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
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To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
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On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
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Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.
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There are many hidden truths behind a lie
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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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A lie is an excuse guarded
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The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
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If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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Deception is everywhere.
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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
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This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.
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Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
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When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.
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Self-deception helps us deceive.
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.
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We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.
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It's not easy, either psychologically or practically, to keep tweaking the truth to make it all fit together.
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
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When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs
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Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
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As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one.
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Lies emerges when control is unreachable
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Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.
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Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
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An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
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They tell us that the rules of power and the rules of war are the same, the art is to deceive; and you will deceive, and be deceived in your turn, whether you are an ambassador or a suitor.
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The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You
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All war is deception.
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Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
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To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
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People lie. Promises are broken. A
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Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.
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Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.
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Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put
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If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.
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Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.