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Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. -- Annie Jacobsen
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. -- Marco Tempest
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. -- Michael Musto
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions. -- Graydon Carter
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.... -- Friedrich Schiller
Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. -- Beth Moore
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception -- Agatha Christie
One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception. -- Brandon Mull
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured. -- Marcus Aurelius
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. -- Charlotte Armstrong
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. -- Dean Koontz
Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth. -- David Jeremiah
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life. -- Eugene Burger
Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges. -- Cortney S. Warren
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome. -- Laurence Overmire
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty -- Jaron Lanier

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