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I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
– Iain Banks

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  2. Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman
  3. A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all. – DaShanne Stokes
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  5. I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. – Iain Banks
  6. Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. – Iain Banks
  7. Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me. – Vironika Tugaleva
  8. Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds. – Richelle E Goodrich
  9. In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people. – David Alejandro Fearnhead
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  12. You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
  13. The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously. – Iain M Banks
  14. One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher. – Iain M Banks
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  17. Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You’re going to shoot down a ????ing starship. It’ll be an experience. – Iain Banks
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  21. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away. – Iain M Banks
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  24. When we buy books we’re fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them. – Gerard VanDerleun
  25. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
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  28. For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  29. Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. – Eraldo Banovac
  30. Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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  32. The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how tosolve it. – Eraldo Banovac
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  35. We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
  36. Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
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  40. May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others. – Charlene Costanzo

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