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Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?

Walter Huston

People, Looks

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A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

Eric S. Raymond

Simple, Brain, Looks

Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.19, Addison-Wesley Professional

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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

C. S. Lewis

Garden, Trying, Use

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Octavio Paz

Wall, Discovery, Self

Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

Frances Allen

Media, People, Marketing

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I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Stanley Kunitz

Dream, Art, Writing

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It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

Tom Udall

Thinking, Order, Law

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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

Steven Pressfield

Self, Giving, Preparation

"Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2011.

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If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Water, Mind, Clear

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Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

Niklaus Wirth

Designer, Program, Interest

"A Digital Contrarian Retires" by Beat Gerber, www.modulaware.com. March 1999.

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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

Lillian Hellman

Dog, Children, Sea

Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one

Ben Crenshaw

Real, Eye, Player

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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Irene Rosenfeld

Clear Direction, Leader, Important

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It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Maxfield Parrish

Beautiful, Light, Color

Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

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Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Believe, Order, Mexico

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My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

Elie Saab

Design, Personality, Sync

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History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Roots, Challenges, Analysis

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.11, Beacon Press

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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Virginia Postrel

Giving, World, Opaque

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At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Paul Kantner

Honesty, Firsts, Iridescent

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Country, Men

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In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.

Jesse L. Greenstein

Mistake, Believe, Science

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One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

Matthew Kahn

Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

Motivational, Integrity, Trying

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"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

Dante Alighieri

Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, Eyeballs

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury (1970). “Talks with Emerson”

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