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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.
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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then-- I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.Thomas Hardy
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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.Osamu Dazai
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.Khaled Hosseini
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes
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There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...Israelmore Ayivor
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A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.Charlotte Armstrong
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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.Unknown
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When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.Yiyun Li
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When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!Israelmore Ayivor
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I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.Brent Weeks
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She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.Grace Willows
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Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute BrideGrace Willows
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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.Grace Willows
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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.Grace Willows
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Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!T.F. Hodge
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Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.Solange Nicole
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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.Sharon Salzberg
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We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything at all. Atheists hate the religious and the religious hate atheists, but this is only a deception! We are all deceived! There is only one boat and we are all in it! All at the same time!.C. Joybell C.
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Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.Sunday Adelaja
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So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.Criss Jami
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It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.Criss Jami
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I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?Suzanne Finnamore
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I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.Suzanne Finnamore
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So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.Suzanne Finnamore
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The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.Suzanne Finnamore
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They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.Suzanne Finnamore
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Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned.Suzanne Finnamore
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Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.Suzanne Finnamore
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I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death. Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.Suzanne Finnamore
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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.Suzanne Finnamore
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How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask." Keep going, " Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.Suzanne Finnamore
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God is great and God is good, " Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?Suzanne Finnamore
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Take me now, God! " I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready."" You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet, " Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man.Suzanne Finnamore
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How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding, " I say. "It´s Normandy out there.Suzanne Finnamore
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I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill reality as I´ve known it? It is irreparable, if I do, from the moment we met until now. It is long. If I discover too much that is false about what I thought my past was, Time will be skewed even further. I already have a poor connection with the present. Example: I have no sense of what day it is. It´s better. .Suzanne Finnamore
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How could you do that to me?" I repeat. I don´t have to itemize. He knows what I speak of. Eventually N produces three answers, in thisSuzanne Finnamore
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Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.Suzanne Finnamore
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The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself.Suzanne Finnamore
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I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.Suzanne Finnamore
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I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.Suzanne Finnamore
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I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.Suzanne Finnamore
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I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.Suzanne Finnamore
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I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just can´t seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire outfits that lure men even shoes with laces evade me. Plus my hair is Fran Lebowitz-esque. I think my eyes are getting closer together. I don´t know.Suzanne Finnamore
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For me, it´s sloth, " I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.Suzanne Finnamore
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Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.Suzanne Finnamore
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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.Suzanne Finnamore
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This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them.Suzanne Finnamore
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There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: "Irreconcilable Differences." JFK and Jackie, anyone at all. It´s built into the man-woman thing. What kind of paltry reason is that? "Insanity" is another box to be checked on the divorce petition, the only alternative to "Irreconcilable Differences." I would like to check it.Suzanne Finnamore
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To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest. .Suzanne Finnamore
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All women are lifelong members of the Secret Service...So, if you must lie, better make sure you cover your tracks because there is no such thing as a 'dumb blonde'...Virginia Alison
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Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.Israelmore Ayivor
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On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise.Israelmore Ayivor
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Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt.TemitOpe Ibrahim
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Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make you my wife. I love waking up to your beautiful face every morning and seeing you before I close my eyes each night. I love you with everything in me, and I promise to be the man that you need for the rest of our lifetime together. Would you do me the honor of being my wife?Blaque Diamond
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What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.DaShanne Stokes
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How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?Craig D. Lounsbrough
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God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Never be seduced by the sweet promises of a better pathSunday Adelaja
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If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off... Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.Denise Hildreth Jones
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People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!Israelmore Ayivor
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Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.Charles Fort
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I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.Suzy Kassem
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Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere – is always right.Suzy Kassem
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People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.DaShanne Stokes
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The enemy knows that without surrender, we will never experience the freedom that God offers us. Without surrender, we will remain spiritually malnourished, ill and confused. Without surrender, our foxholes become prisons of the enemy's making. Our lack of full surrender limits God's ability to both work in our lives and through our lives. God's call to surrender is not an intimidating, angry bark heard from the other side of a battlefield. God's invitation to surrender is expressed through the example of his Son, Jesus, as described in Philippians 2:5-11.Katherine J Walden
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Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.Suzy Kassem
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Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.DaShanne Stokes
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When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.DaShanne Stokes
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Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.DaShanne Stokes
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Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.DaShanne Stokes
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If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.DaShanne Stokes
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To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.Suzy Kassem
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Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the differenceCraig D. Lounsbrough
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Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hearAmit K Ghosh
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OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~Kris Waldherr
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Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!Ana Claudia Antunes
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Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry that woman often forgets the sensual part of it. Those among us who are unable to deceive themselves have invented vice and refined debauchery, which is another way of laughing at God and paying homage, immodest homage, to beauty.Guy De Maupassant
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Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Your soul understands more than you think.Atom Tate
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All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.Dada Bhagwan
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I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.Criss Jami
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Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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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!Israelmore Ayivor
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How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.Unknown
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Love feeds on deception.Erol Ozan
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Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.Michael Bassey Johnson