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• Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

  Dawn French

  Women, Cowboy, Forever

  Dawn French (2010). “A Tiny Bit Marvellous”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

  Laozi

  Love, Jewels, Clothes

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

  Lord Acton

  Politics, Politician, Crime

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.61, Jazzybee Verlag

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Looks, All Things

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.261

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• To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Character, Energy

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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• All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

  Saint Augustine

  Dance, Dancing, Gestures

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• We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.

  Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

  Love, Heart, Quality

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• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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• We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"

  Marlena De Blasi

  Pain, Waiting, Feelings

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• The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.

  Travis Nichols

  Thinking, Skills, Leaving

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

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• The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Art, Book, People

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• I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Uncles, Smart, Stupid

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Routine

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Doe, Hammers

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• I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Selfish, Broken Inside, People

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• In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on Tashan, a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Girl, Life Changing, Sea

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• All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Stronger, Rising

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

  Alice Sebold

  Firsts, Conformity, Weirdness

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opposites, Journalism, Journalist

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.9, Random House

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• Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

  Cecil Beaton

  Missing, Mind, Bouquets

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

  Emma Goldman

  Integrity, Majority, Care

  "Anarchism: Top Crime Collections".

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