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• I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Issues, Progress

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• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

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• Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

  Drake

  Humble, Mirrors, Looks

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• A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, Journey, Knowing

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• Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

  Peter Thiel

  Photography, Optimistic, Player

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

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• Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

  Harold Medina

  Trust, Mistake, Empathy

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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

  Simon Schama

  Forever, Shadow, Inability

  "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.

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• And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiration, Hymns, Addiction

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!

  Marie Dentiere

  Writing, Grace, Good Woman

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• We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.

  Alan Macfarlane

  Eye, Science, Civilization

  Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books

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• Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Mean, Excess

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.156, Schocken

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• One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

  Dick Cheney

  Work, Intelligent, Government

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2006.

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• The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Sacrifice, Forever

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Holy Ghost serves . . . as a revelator, revealing great, new, and important truths. God, with his infinite knowledge and power has developed a system of communication far superior to anything mortals have yet developed or even conceived. Through the Holy Spirit, he is able to communicate with his children instantly, individually, and personally.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Children, Communication, Knowledge And Power

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• The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Father, Son, Men

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• I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

  Ron Lamothe

  Book, Unique, Cameras

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• I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Real, Believe, Risk

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.162, Crown Business

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• Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis.  It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king.  I highly recommend this dynamic book.

  Uri Geller

  Spiritual, Kings, Book

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• Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

  Christoph Waltz

  Truth, Reality, Rumor

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• Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

  John Turturro

  Winning, Games, Watches

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• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  Carla Gugino

  Naked, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Artist, Soul

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• Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Careers, Clay

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.109, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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