{"quotes":[{"text":"We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["actors","audience","award","curtains","decieve","ego","fake","fooling-yourself","liars","performance","pride","stage","thinking-your-better","world"],"id":33665,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["blind","buy-friends","debt","deception","decieve","entice","expectations","fool","gifts","give","help","impress","in-need","indebted-to","manipulate","material","money","obligated","owe","ownership","presents","recieve","strong","sugarcoat","take","use","weak","win-over"],"id":52004,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["act","craziness","decieve","fool","insane","pretend","protection","safety","sane","scare","stay-away"],"id":93093,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Do not deceive yourself.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["decieve","inspirational","motivational","self-love","yourself"],"id":174497,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathetic","apathy","big-business","blid","blind","blood","business","compassionate","corrupt","corrupt-men","corruption","corruption-politics","dark-amitions","decieve","desensitization","desensitize","desensitized","devil","distracted","distractions","distration","distrust","divide","divided","division","elite","empathy","ethical","ethics","evil","evil-thoughts","false-leaders","free-your-mind","fuel","greed","greedy","hearts","human","human-condition","humanism","humanity","lies","lost","lost-humanity","media","mind","misguide","mislead","peace","politicians","politics","pollute","power","sensitivity","shame","stray","trust","truth","unethical","unethically","united","unity","war","wealth"],"id":198410,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["ant","appear","appearance","beholder","blink","deception","decieve","exciting","eyes","imagination","imagine","more","scary","strange","surreal","think","though","tree","truth"],"id":219508,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["brains","decieve","fool","frail","gullible","heart","lack-of-understanding","love","mind","nieve","trick"],"id":237423,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["acknowlege","decieve","doing-the-right-thing","facing-reality-hide","fake","fool","honesty","honor","hurting-yourself","lie","oblige","playing-stupid","pretend","trick","true-to-yourself","willing"],"id":238923,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ity","ity","bad-leadership","conditioning","corrupt","corruption","culture","deception","deceptive","decieve","dirty-politics","fabrications","fiction","follow","follow-your-own-path","fraud-and-conspiracy","free-thinkers","free-will","herd","herd-mentality","illusion","illusions","individuals","individuals","lies","lying","majority","majority-view","mankind","mass-culture","mass-media","masses","media","misguide","mislead","morality","people","philosophy","politics","pop-culture","popular","popularity","programming","question-ity","question-everything","right","right-and-wrong","sheep","social-problem","society","society-and-culture","think","thinking","training","truth","war","wrong","youth"],"id":276467,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We are all innocent, until we die.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["blemish","conscious","decieve","denial","god","guilty","innocent","judgement","justify","sinless"],"id":322422,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}