#deceit — Public Fediverse posts
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Winning Melos, Losing the Empire
Might doesn't make right....https://simplebender.com/2026/05/09/winning-melos-losing-the-empire/
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CW: IndoPol
The unbearable price hike of #LPG and the impending price hike of auto #fuels are Govt of #India's wanton displays of unbridled #insensitivity, #cruelty, #greed and #deceit against #citizens and #MSME. These #robbers grab the benefits of #CrudeOil price drops for themselves and transfer the burden of the rises to us. These #crooks also waited for this round of #elections to be over to deliver us this blow!
What good is a #government that rules all for itself? #GoI #misanthropes
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CW: IndoPol
The unbearable price hike of #LPG and the impending price hike of auto #fuels are Govt of #India's wanton displays of unbridled #insensitivity, #cruelty, #greed and #deceit against #citizens and #MSME. These #robbers grab the benefits of #CrudeOil price drops for themselves and transfer the burden of the rises to us. These #crooks also waited for this round of #elections to be over to deliver us this blow!
What good is a #government that rules all for itself? #GoI #misanthropes
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CW: IndoPol
The unbearable price hike of #LPG and the impending price hike of auto #fuels are Govt of #India's wanton displays of unbridled #insensitivity, #cruelty, #greed and #deceit against #citizens and #MSME. These #robbers grab the benefits of #CrudeOil price drops for themselves and transfer the burden of the rises to us. These #crooks also waited for this round of #elections to be over to deliver us this blow!
What good is a #government that rules all for itself? #GoI #misanthropes
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CW: IndoPol
The unbearable price hike of #LPG and the impending price hike of auto #fuels are Govt of #India's wanton displays of unbridled #insensitivity, #cruelty, #greed and #deceit against #citizens and #MSME. These #robbers grab the benefits of #CrudeOil price drops for themselves and transfer the burden of the rises to us. These #crooks also waited for this round of #elections to be over to deliver us this blow!
What good is a #government that rules all for itself? #GoI #misanthropes
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CW: IndoPol
The unbearable price hike of #LPG and the impending price hike of auto #fuels are Govt of #India's wanton displays of unbridled #insensitivity, #cruelty, #greed and #deceit against #citizens and #MSME. These #robbers grab the benefits of #CrudeOil price drops for themselves and transfer the burden of the rises to us. These #crooks also waited for this round of #elections to be over to deliver us this blow!
What good is a #government that rules all for itself? #GoI #misanthropes
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all is to have done with Falsity — to eschew Falsity as Death Eternal.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Journal (1870-06-23)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/10030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #deception #delusion #falseness #honesty #illusion #integrity #selfdeception #truth #untruth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all is to have done with Falsity — to eschew Falsity as Death Eternal.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Journal (1870-06-23)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/10030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #deception #delusion #falseness #honesty #illusion #integrity #selfdeception #truth #untruth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all is to have done with Falsity — to eschew Falsity as Death Eternal.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Journal (1870-06-23)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/10030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #deception #delusion #falseness #honesty #illusion #integrity #selfdeception #truth #untruth
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all is to have done with Falsity — to eschew Falsity as Death Eternal.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Journal (1870-06-23)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/10030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #deception #delusion #falseness #honesty #illusion #integrity #selfdeception #truth #untruth
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war
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MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly
incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident
to cloak injustice in fair speech,
he dares the utmost villainy.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν
πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει:
γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν
τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81800/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #boldness #coverup #debate #deceit #deception #dishonesty #eloquence #emboldening #evil #evildoer #fasttalker #glibness #injustice #justification #knavery #persuasion #silvertongue #smoothtalker #talkaway #wrongdoer
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A quotation (sort of) from Ben Franklin
Beware, beware! he’ll cheat ’ithout scruple, who can without fear.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/34…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #cheat #cheater $cheating #conscience #criminal #deceit #fear #fraud #getawaywith #guilt #humannature #opportunity #risk #riskassessment #risktaking #scruple #shame
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What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #deceit #dishonesty #humannature #love #seduction #sweettalk #cunning #treachery
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/5188/#quote #quotes #quotation #clarity #communication #deceit #deception #dishonesty #insincerity #language #obfuscation #obscurity
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell (Politics and the English Language)⬆ #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Communication #Deceit #Insincerity #Writing