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• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sacrifice, Pride, Joy

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.89

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• True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Done, Repentance

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?

  Sidney Jourard

  Teamwork, Self, Play

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Suicide, Mistake, Errors

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry: Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.108, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

  Edward Snowden

  Greatest Fear, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden hailed as hero, accused of treason - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  Lady Gregory

  Pain, Grief, Men

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.

  Richard A. Falk

  Practice, Income, Wealth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Finals, Band

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Views, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Errors, Progressive, Used

  "Progressive Disclosure". www.nngroup.com. December 4, 2006.

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• With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?

  Charlie Munger

  Fall, Clerks, Pancakes

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• In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Self, And Love, Atonement

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Couple, Flower, Love You

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent.

  Michael Morell

  School, Technology, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

  Michael Morell

  People, Risk, Perception

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.

  Deb Matthews

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

  Robin Wasserman

  Hate, Passion, Sun

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• Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

  Bill Dedman

  Issues, Government, Mail

  "Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’" by Bill Dedman, www.nbcnews.com. March 18, 2011.

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• If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Believe, Writing, Editors

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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