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Self-deception may prove to be our evolutionary Achilles heel.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011
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“Self-deception when you are in a financial hole is as bad as when you are in the grip of an addiction,” wrote author and blogger Susan Hill.
Publishing Maxine 2009
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Self-deception: Lying to yourself and saying, "Just this one time; that will be the last."
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Top 10 Cracks That Crack (and Other) Addicts Fall Through on Their Way to Recovery M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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Self-deception may prove to be our evolutionary Achilles heel.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011
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Self-deception, Ms. Nathan shows, was the motivation for all three principals involved in the creation of her persona: the patient, the psychiatrist and the writer.
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Self-deception: Lying to yourself and saying, "Just this one time; that will be the last."
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Top 10 Cracks That Crack (and Other) Addicts Fall Through on Their Way to Recovery M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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Self-deception about the nature of the coming GDP uptick could thwart that.
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Self-deception is at the very core of American foreign policy and military action.
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Self-deception of that sort is common to most of us, and I really wanted to explore this theme in my earlier books.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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Self-deception, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and drooling stupidity = GOP values.
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