Covert Quotes - Page 2

• Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

  Christopher Penczak

  Form, Masters, Magician

  Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.29, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

  Celia Green

  Simple, People, Secret

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1981). “Advice to clever children”

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• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Fashion, Religious

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• Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

  Ralph McGehee

  Lying, Responsibility, People

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• Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

  Saint Augustine

  Love You, Mean, Love Is

  "The Confessions".

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• You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

  Gail Carriger

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• This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

  David Corn

  Law, Identity, Agents

  "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

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• The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

  George W. Bush

  War, Secret, Battle

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

  Pat Robertson

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "US Christian extremist branded a terrorist". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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• To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Pigs, Giving

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• When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Doctrine, Delicacy, Matter

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Men, Good Man

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• The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

  Bob Tyrrell

  Country, Wish, Als

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• I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

  Jill Soloway

  Art, Israel, Jewish Identity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, Nuclear, Fuel

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, Movement, Information

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Eight, Defense

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• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  Tahir Shah

  Daughter, Doorways, Reputation

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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• Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  School, Parent, Rebel

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

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• My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

  Dawn French

  Timing, Subtle, Blunders

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• For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

  Edna O'Brien

  Writing, Thieves, Littles

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Children, School

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