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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

  Bill Johnson

  Simple, Generations, Power Of God

  Bill Johnson (2011). “A Life of Miracles: 365-Day Guide to Prayer and Miracles”, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.

  Katie Davis

  Hurt, Jesus, Pain

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• There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees,
  thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re
  revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display
  your differences to make a difference.

  Martha Beck

  Quilts, Thinking, Differences

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• The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

  Voltaire

  Hatred, Prosperity, Greedy

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Introduction, XLII, 1756.

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• I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dream, Mistake, What Matters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

  Sam Harris

  Rome, Religion, Ashes

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

  John Piper

  Valentines Day, Son, Loss

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• I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

  Kyle Cooper

  Yale, Design, Looks

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Reading, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

  Robert Adam

  Men, Excess, Coquetry

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• For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Broken, Unity, Important

  "Reflection". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2005.

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• The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

  Eva Figes

  Race, Glowing, Males

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• Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

  Bill Joy

  Media, Lasers, Dots

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• I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

  Bill Joy

  Window, Gave Up, Code

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