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• They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

  Thomas More

  People, Matter, Lawyer

  Utopia bk. 1 (1516)

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

  John Berger

  Sight, Order, Naked

  "John Berger obituary" by Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2017.

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• Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Blessing, Opportunity

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Economics is really politics in disguise.

  Hazel Henderson

  Economics, Capitalism

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• I think you're an acting teacher in disguise You're so incredibly intuitive and always passionate and always driven to go further. I never had to worry. All I had to do was look at you, babe.

  Chad Coleman

  Teacher, Thinking, Worry

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• Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

  Pusha T

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Pain, Album: My Name Is My Name, 2013

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• Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: K.o.s

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• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

  Marguerite Young

  Reality, Ideas, People

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Individuality, Wells

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.232, Oxford University Press, USA

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• History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Ambition, Past

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

  Dawn Powell

  Artist, People, Needs

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups - civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties - that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.

  Misha Glenny

  Party, Moving, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

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• The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Whole

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.52, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

  Mark Gatiss

  Heart, Thinking, Simple

  "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Don't Change

  David Gemmell (2009). “Dark Moon”, p.112, Random House

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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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