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• Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Betrayal, America, Government

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• I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

  Perry Farrell

  Art, Phones, Cells

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

  Antisthenes

  Lying, Soul, Opulence

  "Symposium" by Xenophon, (iv. 35),

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• We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.

  Tom Hatherley Pear

  Men, Skills, Temptation

  Tom Hatherley Pear (1924). “Skill in Work and Play”

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Excellence

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

  Fred Brooks

  Character, Thinking, Perfect

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Frederick Brooks, 1975.

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• Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.

  John Keegan

  Stress, Fighting, Successful

  John Keegan (1999). “The First World War”, Knopf

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• Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

  Dionne Brand

  Fashion, Communication, Language

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada

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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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• I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Character, Heart

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

  Adolf Galland

  Passion, Ties, Track

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

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• I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Purpose, Gestures, Bows

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.11, A&C Black

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• A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Technology, Glasses, Digital Revolution

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• Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.

  Roosh V

  Moving, Men, Rewards

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• When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

  John Piper

  Treasure, Pleasure, Highest

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• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
  More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Color, Topography, Maps

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

  John Updike

  Self, Fiction, Examination

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.92, Random House

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• Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

  David Shields

  Art, Reality, Economic Models

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• There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Doe, Needs

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

  Eric Metaxas

  Prayer, Apathy, Strongest

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• How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Home, Names, Trying

  Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.354, Faber & Faber

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• Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

  Jon Winokur

  Funny, Dog, Play

  Jon Winokur (1993). “Mondo Canine”, Plume

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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