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• I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

  Annabella Sciorra

  People, Secret, Tvs

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

  Dan Savage

  Fall, Love You, Love Is

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  Adam Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Self

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• Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.

  James Hansen

  Children, Hands, Years

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• I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing.

  Denise Duhamel

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections.

  Jay Sankey

  Art, Connections, Exploring

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• Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Differences, World

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• It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

  Jo Bonner

  Giving, Brotherhood, Spirit

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• To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK".

  Andy Kim

  Song, Emotional, Symphony

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

  Peter Schiff

  Gold, Weakness, Dollars

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• In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Organization, Ignorant

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.11, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Wall, Iron, Broken

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• The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.

  Terri Windling

  Jobs, Book, Heart

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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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• Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

  Julian Assange

  Messengers, Uncomfortable

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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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• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  Edward T. Hall

  Time, Wall, People

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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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• When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Ignorance, Compassion, Neon

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

  Marion Woodman

  Essence, Burning, Veils

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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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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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Artist, Views, Subjectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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