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• I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Passionate, Unjust

  "My Credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.838, GENERAL PRESS

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• I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

  David Collenette

  Believe, Should, Function

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• A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Friendship, Women

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• St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

  Charles Madigan

  Beer, Opportunity, Acting

  "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye". articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.

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• I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Deep Understanding

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• For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

  Frank Beddor

  Struggle, Adversity, Soldier

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, School, Ideas

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• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Sadism, Kind

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

  David Lehman

  Air, Criticism, Lasts

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

  Griffin Dunne

  Different, Problem

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Challenges, Criticism, Germany

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• In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Invisible, Poor

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• I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Mean, Names, People

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• [Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Real, Self

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• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

  Stephanie Mills

  Sports, May, Given

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.70, Island Press

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• Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Aspiration

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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• What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fear, Heart, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “The Evil Eye”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Pregnancy, Abortion Laws, Feminist

  "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

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• The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

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• Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

  John Lennon

  Kings, People, Serious

  BBC interview with David Wigg, May 8, 1969.

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• ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Offering, Giving

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• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  Charles Ludlam

  Years, Sublime, Ridiculous

  Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

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