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Deception

"Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They copy the answers from the back of the book without troubling to work out the sum for themselves." Soren Kierkegaard

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception." Marquis De Vauvenargues

"The easiest person to fool is yourself." Richard Feynman

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)

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