Deviousness Quotes

• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Reality, Idealism And Realism

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Writing, Self, Discrepancies Between

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com. May 30, 2005.

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• Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, Taken, Dark

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• You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.

  Mary Lawson

  Fear, Fall, Fate

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• The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Division, Paper

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• The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Believe, Development, Way

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