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• Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

  Stephen King

  Pride, Self, Deception

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

  Laurie R. King

  Teacher, Husband, Hair

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

  Leo Rosten

  Children, Simple, Play

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• Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

  Jim Butcher

  Worry, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.395, Penguin

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Kissing, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

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• Language disguises thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores

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• Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Lying, Dark

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.22, Penguin

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• One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Medicine, People, Care

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• "Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

  John Waters

  Perfectly Good, Rights, Racism

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

  Dustin Penner

  Fun, Hard Work, Humor

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• Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize either him or his methods.

  Heber J. Grant

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Healing, Conflict

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• No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Loneliness, Mask

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• People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

  L'Wren Scott

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Teacher, Enemy, Spirit

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• Enemies were teachers in disguise.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Teacher, Enemy

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Growth

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Clever, Somewhere Else, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 16, 2017

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• Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

  Dennis Potter

  Mask, Discourse, Materials

  Dennis Potter (1994). “Waiting for the Boat: On Television”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

  Laurie Notaro

  Girlfriend, Bad Boyfriend, Bad Boy

  Laurie Notaro (2003). “Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood”, p.15, Villard

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