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Letter "D" » deceived
«The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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deceive, deceived, from time to time, prudent, senses, the senses, wholly
«The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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connected, deceived, deceivers, deeper, seduce, seduced, seduces, seducing, unscrupulousness
«Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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deceived, Thee
«Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.»
«We like to be deceived.»
«We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Deception
| Keywords:
deceive, deceived
«The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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Bureaucracies, circle, deceived, detail, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, general knowledge, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, levels, low-level, lower, mutually, The General
«The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Appreciation
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appreciate, deceived, terribly, The Pleasure
«We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.»
«We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
animated, animates, deceived, entangle, entangled, entangling, fallacies, motives, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, prompted, prompting, seduced
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