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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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• Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Pride, Mind, Enemy

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• We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Journey, Government, Funeral

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

  Edward Sapir

  Fashion, Departure, Customs

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.374, Univ of California Press

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Different, Art Is

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Christian Zervos, No. 10, 1935.

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• Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Two, Feelings

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Reality, Kyoto Protocol, Environmental

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• There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Safety, Individual, Justification

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• If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

  John Carroll

  Taken, Men, Return

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Self, Law, People

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.359, Kodansha International

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• It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Firsts, Innocence

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.35

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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• This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it. And the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Second Chance, Government, Done

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• This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

  Felix Dennis

  Safety, Nannies, Modern

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• The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Fiber, Injury

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• Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Hands, Praying

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Exercise, Vanity, Self

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• If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

  Lucius Shepard

  Knowing, Joy, Secret

  Lucius Shepard (1987). “The Jaguar Hunter”, Arkham House Pub

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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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• Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

  Roger Housden

  Energy, India, Example

  Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub

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• Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

  Maria Montessori

  Soul, Deception, Deceit

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