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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley: dialogues on art -
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
The politics of experience -
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
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