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• I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Confused, Dark

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• The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Motivation, People

  Josh McDowell (1990). “His Image...My Image”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

  Murray Levin

  Freedom, Stupid, Liberty

  Murray Burton Levin (1971). “Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression”

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• Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

  Dan Brown

  Government, Expression, People

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  Huey Newton

  Latin, America, Blood

  Source: www.afro.com

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• Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

  Nigel Barker

  Shooting, Photographer, Persons

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• Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Symbolism, Respectability

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• This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.

  Anne Ursu

  Morning, School, Differences

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• At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Meaningful, Gratitude, Blessing

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• I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

  Peter Zumthor

  Passion, Thinking, Creating

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• How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Clever, Husband

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.712, Dell

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• Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Worry, Action

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.143, Zondervan

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• One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.

  Paul McCartney

  Beautiful, Memories, Suits Of Armor

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

  Alan Moore

  Firsts, Chaos, Authority

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• I am who I am. There’s no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn’t concern me. Maybe that’s the sexy part.

  Gerard Way

  Sexy, Who I Am, Sexiest

  "Dungeon Master". Interview with Kyle Anderson, www.spin.com. February 28, 2006.

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• A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Temples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

  Victor Hugo

  Wall, Doors, Agony

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• The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Weakness, Women Strength

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Character, Iron, Personality

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• I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Romance

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• Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Clouds, Views

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Cities, Space

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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