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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Funeral, Earth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

  Edward Tufte

  Believe, Order, Profound

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• It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

  Naima Adedapo

  People, Dancer, Singers

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• Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

  John Piper

  Mirrors, Paradise, Majesty

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• The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

  John Piper

  Glory, Aim, Ultimate

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• The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

  John Piper

  Son, Calling, Way

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• The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

  John Piper

  Dream, Church, Covenant

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.16, SPCK

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• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  William Scranton

  Relationship, Government, People

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• When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

  John Piper

  Treasure, Pleasure, Highest

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

  Frank McCourt

  Kissing, Emotional, Mouths

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• All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

  John Piper

  Echoes, People, Excellence

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• An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Attitude, Fighting, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.112, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leader, Honest, Authority

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• I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Believe, Eugenics

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• Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Democracy, Paper

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.226, SIU Press

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• Talent is truth on display.

  Terry Rossio

  Talent

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• I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Character, People, Perspective

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• Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Disability

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• Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.

  Henry Rollins

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.

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• The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

  George C. Scott

  Awards, Two, Meat

  "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.

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• I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

  Michael Caine

  Autumn, Garden, Tree

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.364, Hachette UK

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• We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Mean, Cutting

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, Biography, History, 2003.

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• My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

  Columba Bush

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

  Greta Scacchi

  Commitment, World, Persons

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