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• Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in discounts, service, and quality, and wage changes, in overtime, perquisites and so on…. But to whatever extent the freeze is enforced, it will do harm by distorting relative prices.

  Milton Friedman

  Quality, Individual, Form

  Milton Friedman (1975). “There's no such thing as a free lunch”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• (On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

  Lucretius

  Summer, Air, Hands

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• Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

  Frances Hardinge

  Illness, China, Left Behind

  Frances Hardinge (2014). “Cuckoo Song”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Law, Cities

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Happy Life, Afterlife, Time On Earth

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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• For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title

  Rebecca Enonchong

  Long, Titles, Cards

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• Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Space, Seductive, May

  Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

  Paracelsus

  Causes, Marvellous

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• When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
  is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
  to be mourned,
  but as an act of citizenship,
  to be vaunted,
  there is little civilian life left.

  Jill Lepore

  Self, Defense, Littles

  "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.

  Frank Smith

  Song, Book, Writing

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• Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Wise, Secret, Sensible

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• How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Price Tag, Decision, Choices

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• Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Lying, Reality

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

  David Hume

  Air, People, Victory

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.463

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• The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Wall, Ghetto, Light

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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

  John S. Pistole

  Technology, Light, Enemy

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• Great fear is concealed under daring.

  F. L. Lucas

  Fear, Overcoming, Daring

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• National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

  Barack Obama

  Illinois, Law, Safety

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• The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Mind, Enemy

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• The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Bores, Concubines

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• Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

  George Orwell

  Christian, Reading, Italian

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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