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• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. — Grover Cleveland
• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as… — Giuliano Amato
• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain
• Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts
• It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort… — Vladimir Lenin
• Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — Hilaire Belloc
• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. — Calvin Coolidge
• Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? — Romeo Dallaire
• Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my… — Robin Wasserman
• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him;… — Jodi Picoult

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