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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 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Skills, Humanity, Littles

  Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.145, Taylor & Francis

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Aspiration

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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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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• 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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• 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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