That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology...

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

But this is deception. It’s moving very fast, and just because you can’t see and feel it, doesn’t mean it’s not the truth.

See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.”Here Christ cautions His present and future disciples from being misled, meaning not to be deceived, caused to err from the truth, or lead to form a wrong judgment. It is important for us...

bombs” in the stomach, a trick to convince survivors that their abusers monitor them continuously. The presence of an object does not mean it is capable of collecting complex information and sending it back to abusers, or even sending them signals, for twenty or more years as some survivors believe. As with other apparently bizarre...

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I’ve already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

You’ll know I’ve gone into ninja mode because I’ll have turned out the light. I make love like an assassin, and if you hear me snoring, I’m only pretending to be asleep! All love is based on deception. I mean war. War is based on deception. I get love and war mixed up.

Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!

I am not good at deception,’ said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,’ said the President with a ponderous heartiness, ‘You aren’t good at anything.

The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself that it was this person, this chance, where she would have found happiness.

He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title indicates, and not a study. The author is a well known skeptic regarding cult and ritual abuse allegations and has consulted on a number of cases but to our knowledge has not personally...

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. “Like your wife and child,” I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

Obama’s rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn’t even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello...

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn’t so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitable present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated,...

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

A lifestyle of deception is hard to keep up if your clones aren’t willing to participate.

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

Don’t let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

pious”.

There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears, said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, “tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.”

The keepers would give the gorillas an assortment of fruits and vegetables each afternoon, and on this particular occasion, Judy Sievert tossed Nina an apple, which rolled away. Instead of going to get it, Nina just ‘sat there sadly,’ in Judy’s words. Judy continued her rounds, handing out yams and apples to the other gorillas,...

Lie, illusion, deception, she said–was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing….except the gentleness of His touch.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Très, très, triste…

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it ‘sucka-free’, loved one!

When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.