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• If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Water, Mind, Clear

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• Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Designer, Program, Interest

  "A Digital Contrarian Retires" by Beat Gerber, www.modulaware.com. March 1999.

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• Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

  Lillian Hellman

  Dog, Children, Sea

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Clear Direction, Leader, Important

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• Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them

  Walter Russell

  Mistake, Eye, Thinking

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• Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Men, Glasses, Long Ago

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

  Thomas Merton

  Nice, Simple, Meditation

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• I am become a transparent eyeball.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Eyeballs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury (1970). “Talks with Emerson”

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• Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

  Patricia Heaton

  Heart, Boys, Men

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• Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

  Brian Eno

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

  John Tillotson

  Dark, Thinking, Danger

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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  Umberto Eco

  Song, Kings, Queens

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Garden, Light

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• It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

  Shakira

  Glasses, Water, Life Is Like

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• When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

  Howard Schultz

  Two, People, Joining

  Interview with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. December 28, 2007.

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• Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Potters, Six

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• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Giving, World

  " Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier - review" by Laurence Scott, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Window Panes, Should

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• The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

  William Gibson

  Bullshit, Internet, Free Speech

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• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Wisdom, Dark

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• A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...

  Richard Bach

  Silly, Air, Rumor

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Nature, Mean

  Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

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• I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, People, Different

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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