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• Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

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• The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Whole

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.52, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Enemies were teachers in disguise.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Teacher, Enemy

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Ordinary, Connections

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Blessing, Views

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

  William Maxwell

  Writing, Typewriters, Self

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• Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Doubt, Facts

  Blaise Pascal, Prosper Faugère (1849). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Pascal: Consisting of Letters, Essays, Conversations, and Miscellaneous Thoughts (the Greater Part Hertofore Unpublished in this Country, and a Large Portion from Original Mss.)”, p.132

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• What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise

  Doreen Virtue

  Block, Blessing, Problem

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016

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  Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

  Young Jeezy

  Eye, Blessing, Blessings In Disguise

  Song: I Luv It, Album: The Inspiration, 2006

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, Definitions

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• Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Trying, Mask

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• Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Art, Philosophy, Giving

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• Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

  T Bone Burnett

  Honesty, Subversive

  Song: Hollywood Mecca of the Movies, Album: The True False Identity

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• Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

  Spider Robinson

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• Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Issues, Social

  "Social intrapreneurship and all that jazz" by Melody McLaren, Lionel Bodin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

  Laurie Notaro

  Girlfriend, Bad Boyfriend, Bad Boy

  Laurie Notaro (2003). “Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood”, p.15, Villard

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  It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

  David Hume

  Men, Order, Liberty

  David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston (1994). “Hume: Political Writings”, p.253, Hackett Publishing

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• Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

  Dennis Potter

  Mask, Discourse, Materials

  Dennis Potter (1994). “Waiting for the Boat: On Television”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Clever, Somewhere Else, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 16, 2017

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Growth

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.

  James Mullinger

  Clothes, Wife, Wells

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• I got to take my kids to the London eye with no one looking at me like I was Johnny Depp. They did look at me like I was some kind of sicko walking around with beautiful kids, but I had a perfect disguise.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Kids, Eye

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?

  Brad Willis

  Real, Blessing, Growth

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

  Paul Reubens

  Mask, Caught, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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