{"quotes":[{"text":"If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["awareness","deceit","deception","deception","donald-trump","donald-trump-president","donald-trump","enemies","fraud","fraudsters","fraudulence","fraudulent","government","government","hidden-motives","keep-your-enemies-closer","politics","politics","president-trump","president-trump","scorpion","sting","surprise","surprise-attack","venom"],"id":52107,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["cheap","cost","deceit","deception","ego","egocentric","fake","fooling","foolish","fraudulence","fraudulent","gift","gifts","give","giving","greed","greedy","life","mislead","misled","narcissism","narcissistic","people","pretend","pretending","price","self","self-centered"],"id":79169,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceive","deceiving","deception","disguise","disguised","facade","fake","fraud","fraudulent","life","pretense","pretenses","scissors","veneer"],"id":157767,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceit","deceive","deception","ego","egocentric","fake","false","fraudulence","fraudulent","gifts","give","giving","greed","greedy","lie","life","narcissism","narcissistic","pretend","pretending","self-centered","selfish","selfishness"],"id":290654,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["castle","company","conjunction","corporation","corrupt","corruption","electric","electrical","enforcement","english","englishman","fraud","fraudulent","home","house","law","officer","police","sheriff","taught","utility"],"id":313244,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["disguise","ego","egocentric","fake","fraud","fraudulent","greed","greedy","justification","justify","narcissist","narcissistic","odor","odors","rationalize","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","smell","stench","stink","stinky"],"id":324812,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["authentic","bible","christian","christianity","facsimiles","fake","fraudulent","genuine","god","great","greatness"],"id":334034,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christmas","fake","fraudulent","genuine","god","holidays","jesus","jesus-christ","majestic","majesty","manger","pretend","pretending","truth"],"id":336648,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["convince","convincing","deceive","deceived","deception","fake","fear","fearful","fool","fooled","fraud","fraudulent","frighten","frightened","horrified","horror","power","powerful","scare","scared","scary"],"id":439683,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["blatantly","break","corrupt","corruption","dealing","deny","enforcement","event","fraud","fraudulent","group","know","law","people","police","sheriff","video","when","willfully","writing"],"id":460616,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}