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“Man's unconscious believes that it must use deception and self-deception to allow the conscious mind to survive and justify itself within our material realm.…

— D.R. Cozen

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves…

— Errol Morris

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“As long as you regard yourself or any part of your experience as the "dream come true," then you are involved in self-deception. Self-deception…

— Chogyam Trungpa

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which…

— Aubrey de Grey

We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion,…

— Stanley Hauerwas

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example,…

— Mike Bouchard

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

— Leroy Hood

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening…

— Henry Reed

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human…

— Saint Bernard

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please…

— Mario Monti

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are…

— Walter Kirn

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed…

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games…

— Suzanne Collins