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• The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

  Franz Liszt

  Real, Character, Shining

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• God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, People, Heaven

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Garden, Eden

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.

  Susan Orlean

  Beach, Ocean, People

  "Culture Desk On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  Umberto Eco

  Reading, Different, Poetic

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.545, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Vulgar, Ostentation

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

  John Berger

  Beauty, Dresses, Naked

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

  Jeff Bezos

  Reading, People, Causes

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• Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, School, Skills

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• What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Perception, Important

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Immature, Reluctance

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power, Sea, Generosity

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

  Sloane Crosley

  Country, New York, Reality

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• We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

  Sloane Crosley

  Air, Littles, Matter

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• I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

  Tony Curtis

  Florida, Pieces, World

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• The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Mean, Light

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Intolerance, Terrible

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• Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

  John Dos Passos

  Eye, Dull, May

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

  Colin Powell

  Attitude, Winning, Thinking

  "A Conversation With Colin Powell: What Startups Need To Know". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then said the stupidest thing possible. "You're not scared of anything." "I'm scared of a lot of things. I was scared for you" He released me, and I stepped back. There was still passion and worry written all over him. "I'm not perfect, I'm not invulnerable.

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Perfect, Worry

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.486, Penguin

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• If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Couple, Taken, Guy

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