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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

  Harriet Lerner

  Attitude, Real, Mean

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Vices, Circumstances, Slander

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• Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

  Ian Holm

  Way, Testicles, Passive

  "Fictional character: Dr. Ernesto Morales". "The Treatment", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.

  Teju Cole

  New York, Book, Character

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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.

  Denise Duhamel

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, May, Faces

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• Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.

  Tim Rice

  Dream, Moving, Ambition

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• Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them.

  Albert Pike

  Men, People, Curiosity

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Important, Needs

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• 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.

  Wilfred Bion

  Lying, Purpose, Speech

  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Indulge In, Deception

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.28, Book Tree

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Animal, Littles

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• Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Intellectual, Fields

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• The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Jobs, Hate, Men

  Source: rutherford.org

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• Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Art, Believe

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• Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Opposites, Two, Quality

  "Doctrine of the Sufis". Book by Muhammed Al-Kalabadhi, translated by A.J. Arberry. Chapter 5, p. 16, 1977.

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• Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Sacrifice, People, Effort

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• Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

  George Carlin

  Mind, Would Be, Tools

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.

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• Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Spirit, Affection, Spots

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• 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

  Passion, Mean, Expression

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis

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• All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Regret, Europe, People

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

  Laozi

  Clothes, Taoism, Sage

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• A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Father, Lying, Believe

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Korea

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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