Concealing Quotes - Page 2

• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  Karen Duffy

  Beach, Water, Balls

  "Model lives with chronic disease". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

  George Carlin

  Truth, Stupid People, Tools

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good...

  Julian Assange

  Organization, Effort, Important

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Defense, Way

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• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Thinking, Littles

  Notebook, 1899

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• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

  Franklin P. Jones

  Art, Originality, Source

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• I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Lying, Flower

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• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Spy, Identity

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• Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Fictional character: Eva Perón". "Evita", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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• It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.

  Victoria Alexander

  Humility, Quality, Males

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• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Clever, Past

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.197, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Father, Lying, Believe

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

  Laozi

  Clothes, Taoism, Sage

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Korea

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

  Sean Parker

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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• I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Decision, Citizens, Answers

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• True art consists in concealing art.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Ballet

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• The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Cat, Government, Games

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• The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Revealing, Constellations

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• Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

  Kanye West

  Racism, Alive, Stills

  Song: Never Let Me Down

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