A Quote by John Tillotson
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.
The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.
Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.
Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.
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