Word: deceits
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...oppose taxes in general, and indeed feel that citizens of a nation ought to share in the responsibility and therefore the payment of appropriate services required within the nation. However, the war in Vietnam into which our nation was led through deceit and falsehood and whose cost in lives and property of the Vietnamese and other peoples of Indochina has been incredibly large is not something for which I can in good conscience give my support or feel deserving of tax monies. The will of millions of people in the United States has been regularly thwarted as they have attempted...
Studies of welfare districts around the country consistently find that the rate of fraud is minute. In Massachusetts, a "quality control" sampling is regularly done and has yet to reveal a deceit level higher than one per cent, a figure too small to warrant further spending on detection...
...Denying complaints that his government is spending too little on cultural affairs, Pompidou answered a newsman who urged him to be "a prince who loves the arts" with a paraphrased riposte from Molière's Tartuffe: "I am a prince who hates deceit...
...United States, we are not always able to accept or reject evaluations as freely as we might like. Thus, we grow up being taught- usually by the media- that war criminals are leaders, that genocidal war is something worth fighting, that academic freedom is more than a hollow deceit which allows universities to train students to kill Vietnamese...
...reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores. That behind the facade there is, indeed, another facade...