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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the… — Sun Tzu
• Appearances are deceptive. — Aesop
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• Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet
• Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength… — Simone de Beauvoir
• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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• Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. — Heraclitus

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