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• Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Moving, Eye

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• The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Holiness, Might

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• While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

  David Hume

  Nature, Philosophy, Science

  David Hume (1759). “The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II”, p.450

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• So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

  Henri Poincare

  Eye, Science, Reality

  "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.

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• Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

  Italo Svevo

  Fear, Fate, Tears

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• Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Evil, Deeds

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• Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.

  Pope John XXIII

  Sweet, Jesus, Memories

  "Journal of a Soul".

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• Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil all your divine rays. But the shadow of your veil is luminous and pure. Living Bread of faith, Celestial Food, O mystery of love! My daily Bread, Jesus, is You!... Jesus, it is you who, despite the blasphemies Of the enemies of the Sacrament of love, It is you who want to show how much you love me, Since you make your dwelling in my heart. O Bread of the exiled! Holy and Divine Host, It is no longer I who live, but I live on your life

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Healing of every sort-physical, psychological, energetic, and spiritual-can take place over time or happen in the twinkling of an eye. That our loved ones in heaven know of our suffering and care deeply about us and the onward flow of our lives speaks once again of the love, presence, and connection extending beyond the veil of death.

  Lee Lawson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Eye

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• It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Cutting, Clothes, Analysis

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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• Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Imagination, Sacred

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the veil between lover and lover.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Alaska

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

  Camille Flammarion

  Stars, Blue, Sky

  Camille Flammarion, James Glaisher (1873). “The Atmosphere”, p.103, New York : Harper

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• Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Historical, Perception, Culture

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• Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

  Pope Pius XI

  Law, Justice, Charity

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Science, Moon

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Expression, Hands

  "Science & Technology in India Through the Ages". Book by George Bernard Shaw (p. 213),

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• Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hands, Way, Facts

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• For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

  Richard Bach

  Men, Velvet, Pilots

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Flower, Secret, World

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• The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Watches, Boundaries

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• Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.

  Jorie Graham

  Book, Perception, Spirit

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• Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

  Celia Rees

  Fall, Light, Blood

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Shoes

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

  E. B. White

  Beauty, Doe, Littles

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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