“To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle
“The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.”
Book II, satire ii, line 6
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
James Jesus Angleton (1917–1987) chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975
Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-7775367.html <br class="br"> Operation Gladio http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921
“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”
Brian Eno (1948) English musician, composer, record producer and visual artist
August 2, 1995, p. 165
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Working
Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment
L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;
Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos pensées
N'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.
Auguste, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)
“Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain
Presidential press release on 29th December 2006, one day before an ETA bomb attack at Madrid airport, resulting in 2 deaths. <br class="br">As President, 2006 <br class="br">Source: el Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/12/29/espana/1167368963.html.