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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in…
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the…
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To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if…
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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they…
— Adolf Hitler
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Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.
— Austin O'Malley
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What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and…
— Roger Waters
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Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of…
— Jose Saramago
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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and…
— Walter Hilton
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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean…
— William Somerset Maugham
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Some Women can be just as much of a dog as some men, they cheat, they lie, and they deceive also. Never…
— Ayjee Grogan
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