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  • Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

    Book   Reality   Assuming  
  • Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

    Pride   Names   Quality  
    Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

    John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis
  • By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

    Doe   Concealing  
  • Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  • The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

    Cat   Government   Games  
  • One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

    Song   Two   Space  
  • The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there

    Self   World   Earth  
  • 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.

    Girl   Writing   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

    Patience   Art   Children  
  • I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.

    Brother   Book   Heart  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.681, Penguin
  • Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

    Lying   Book   Thinking  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

    Jobs   Eye   Generations  
  • Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

    Alan Watts (1982). “Play to Live: Selected Seminars”
  • In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

    Memories   Writing   Play  
  • Art lies in concealing art.

    Art   Lying   Concealing  
  • Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

    Crazy   Ideas   People  
  • I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  • More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

    Clever   People   Way  
  • Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

    'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26
  • It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

    Lying   Purpose   Speech  
    Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated
  • He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.
  • True art consists in concealing art.

    Art   Ballet   Concealing  
  • Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

  • The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

    Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text
  • The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

    Views   People   Office  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

    Details   Bugs   Language  
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