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• The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Old Testament, New Testament

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• How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Moving, Mean, Games

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• Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Taxation, Regulation

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Enemy, Want, Ifs

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• Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kissing, Hatred, Countenance

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Jeans, Skeletons

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• A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Grind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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• Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Sight, Forests

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.39, Gibbs Smith

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• In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fear, Rain, Darkness

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.610, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

  John Ruskin

  Sea, Darkness, Infinity

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.46

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• Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cities, Different, Extravagance

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.303, Harvard University Press

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• Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

  Sophocles

  All Things

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Nice, Light

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• I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Strong, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Gun, Order, Giving

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Small Acts

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• Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Lying, Simplicity, Chaos

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• Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

  Gunter Grass

  World, Information, Volume

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Women, Ignorance

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Good Deeds, Admirable

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