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• There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

  Raymond Loewy

  Race, Trash, Modernism

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Children, Hate

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

  Miroslav Volf

  Way, Violence, Hospitality

  Miroslav Volf (2011). “A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good”, p.47, Brazos Press

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• We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.

  Margaret George

  Body, Way, Mercy

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.

  Tina Modotti

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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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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• Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Weakness, Needs, Feels

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• ...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Eye, Two, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.57, Vintage

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• To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.

  Starhawk

  Names, Paganism, Males

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• There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humanity, Towns, Lenses

  "A life in writing: Terry Pratchett" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.

  Pedro Noguera

  Kids, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.

  Kevin Keck

  Reading, Writing, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

  Rob Roberge

  Matter, Fiction, Scene

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but just as opposed to using cowboy iconography, using World War II iconography as kind of the jumping-off point.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Cowboy, Jumping

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• The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Truth, Matter, Lord

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• It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.

  Nathan Parsons

  Character, Names, Different

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Occupation

  Source: russialist.org

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• You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Ready, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and cancels out democracy as the incommensurable sharing of existence that makes the political possible.

  Henry Giroux

  Opposites, Safety, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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