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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told. -- P. T. Barnum
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide. -- Luke Harding
Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in. -- Daryl Hannah
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity. -- Mark Pagel
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. -- Steven Weber
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted. -- Mark Skousen
The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad. -- Abigail Disney
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. -- Edwidge Danticat
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. -- Ezra Cornell
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.' -- Tim Heidecker
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. -- Mason Cooley
We are easily duped by those we love. -- Moliere
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. -- Lord Chesterfield
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. -- Henry Miller
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. -- Mason Cooley
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. -- Charles Caleb Colton
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. -- Criss Jami
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces. -- Erik Naggum
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful. -- Manohla Dargis
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals. -- Washington Irving
I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon. -- Susan Lodge

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