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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

  George Scialabba

  Powerful, Should, Institutions

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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• You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

  Brian Eno

  Differences, Guitar, Play

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Glasses, Style, Littles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 481. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

  Jane Aiken Hodge

  Happiness, Virtue

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  Saul Bellow

  Moving, Roots, White

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowering, Growth, India

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• To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that, when I see my fans on the road we have real conversations and it's not even that I do it as some big ploy to have album sales. I do it because it's important for them to understand who I am. So, whatever backlash comes along with me being transparent, there's nothing I can do about it.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Real, Artist, Who I Am

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.

  Scott Snyder

  Honesty, Believe, Writing

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• [Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Veils, Rooms, Helping

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.

  Beth Brooke

  Men, Goal, Leader

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• The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.

  Marc Levine

  Agriculture, Water, Doe

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

  John O. Brennan

  Government, People, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

  Herbert Simon

  Mean, Design, Problem

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.49

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• Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Keys, India, Way

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• I dream of a Digital India where government is open, and governance is transparent.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Government, Digital India

  "PM Modi Launches 'Digital India', Promising Lakhs Of Jobs" by Betwa Sharma, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2015.

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• They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Reality, People, Worry

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• If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Want, Cosmetics

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• I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

  Stacy Barthe

  Lying, Mean, Play

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wall, Mean, Self

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sweet, Twilight, Heart

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Shining, Heaven

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• She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Lamps, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1678, Simon and Schuster

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