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• I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way.

  Donald Trump

  Boys, Engineering, Law

  Source: time.com

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• The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

  Ralph Nader

  Successful, Museums, Safety

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

  Bradley Whitford

  Frustration, Interesting, Guy

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• Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

  Dan B. Allender

  Dark, Path, Sides

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, House

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• Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Solitude, Toil

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28

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• There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Feet, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.227, Vintage

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• The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Long, Secret

  Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Kube-McDowell (2012). “The Trigger”, p.145, RosettaBooks

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• We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Children, Civilization

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.91, Routledge

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• It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Intuition, Easy

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.377, Spectra

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• Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.

  Chris Lehane

  Powerful, Father, Intelligent

  "Romney's new foe: Batman's 'Bane'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. July 16, 2012.

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• The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 01, 2014

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• Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

  Emma Goldman

  Success, Ambition, Mean

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra knicks? I'm practically naked each time I step in the ring. But I tend to cover up my privates in public. No one likes ginger pubes.

  Sheamus

  Wwe, Naked, Green

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• We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

  Joko Beck

  People, Anxiety, Way

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• In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Mexico, Want, Rooms

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• You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?'

  Emma Roberts

  Eye, Makeup, People

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• My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

  David Allan Coe

  Redneck, Hair, Long

  Song: Long Haired Redneck, 1976

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• Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

  Nelson DeMille

  Clueless, Pensive

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• If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Hate, Color, Black

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• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Trying, Doe, Scratches

  Sharon Jaynes (2007). “The Power of a Woman's Words”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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