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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Leadership, Jesus, Distance

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Air, Hands

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Girl, Secret, Weight

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• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

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• The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, People, Pugs

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.

  Diablo Cody

  Girl, Stars, Glasses

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.67, Penguin

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• To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hands, Ordinary, Bags

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38

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• Do the truth quietly without display.

  Brennan Manning

  Ragamuffin Gospel

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.90, Multnomah

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• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

  Michael Cunningham

  Kindness, Believe, Tired

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Hands, Passive Resistance

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.203, Dial Press

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