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• The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Holiday, Mean

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• I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.

  David Hare

  Believe, Thinking, Play

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, People, Envy

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• The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Erotic, Bananas

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Father, Dark

  Strange Interlude pt. 2, act 9 (1928)

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• There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Great Love, Littles, Embrace

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• A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

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• It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Men, Principles

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.386, Re-Image Publishing

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Writing, Hands

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• I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

  John Piper

  Running, Race, Waste

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• Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

  Juvenal

  Blood, Portraits, Noble

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 23-25, Satires, VIII, line 1, 1922.

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• A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

  John Cheever

  Elderly, Sea, Fishing

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• There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Doe

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• To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Principles, Theory

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

  Epictetus

  Men, Law, Special

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Football, Player, Looks

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Devil, Rays

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• If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

  William Cowper

  Half, Way, Gale

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171

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• We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

  Max Lucado

  Glimpse, Paper, Soil

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Vices, Aristocracy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Introduction, 1835.

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• It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

  John Constable

  Hands, Together, Gains

  John Constable (1966). “Correspondence”

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• The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.

  Max Beckmann

  Reality, Order, Suffering

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

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