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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

Hakuin Ekaku

Wisdom, Moonlight

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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

Bill Roorbach

Teacher, Real, Teaching

Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

Fulton J. Sheen

Beauty, God, Faith

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Inspiration, Soul

Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.320, Ignatius Press

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Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

Terry Leahy

Business, Past, Thinking

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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Seneca the Younger

Time, Lying, Philosophy

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An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

Sunshine, Practice, Government

"Tracking Federal Hurricane Aid Poses a Challenge" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

Deepika Padukone

People, Mind, Body

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

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Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

Bing Crosby

Thinking, Years, Talent

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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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President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

Donald Trump

Country, President, President Obama

"As president, Trump sings a different tune on 'transparency'" by Philip Eil, www.cjr.org. January 31, 2017.

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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

George W. Bush

Humor, People, Political

"The Complete Bushisms". Media roundtable, Washington, D.C., www.slate.com. March 13, 2001.

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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Walter Gropius

Lying, Design, Building

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There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Eric Zorn

Change, Talking, Priorities

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

David Antin

Growing Up, Fluency, Language

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...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

Reinhold Messner

Rivers, Mountain, Body

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You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Jerry Pinto

Strong, Long, People

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The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

Michael Hyatt

Character, Opportunity, People

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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Al Gore

Government, Long, People

Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.123, A&C Black

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If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Dalai Lama

People, Honest, Truthful

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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Reid Hoffman

Issues, People, Social Media

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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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