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• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Home, Night, Scotland

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• And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

  Robert Southey

  Summer, Tree, Hollies

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.129

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• There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Arena, Form

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• A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Reason, Should, Force

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Age, Mammals

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 126, 1933.

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• The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

  Brian Molko

  Mirrors, Personality, Sides

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• I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

  Curtis Jackson

  Feelings, Way, Emotion

  "I'm not trying to save the world" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2006.

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• The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Numbers, Vanity

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

  Max Lucado

  Vegas, Church, Shows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

  Steve Vai

  People, Trying, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

  Tom Lantos

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

  Peter Farb

  Marriage, Celebration, Economic

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

  Juvenal

  Hero, Men, Shining

  Juvenal (1806). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.259

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• The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
  and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

  Richard Lederer

  Wise, Humorous, Metaphor

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Space, Looks, Welcome

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• Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

  Laura Cereta

  Men, Safe, Opinion

  Laura Cereta (2007). “Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• I have to display what I have seen to people.

  Ala Bashir

  People, Exhibitions

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Odds

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.98

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• Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Artist, Perspective

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

  Johannes Kepler

  Miracle, Doe, Crowds

  Foreword in "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" by Johannes Kepler, 1601.

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• The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

  George Inness

  Art, Greatness, Force

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• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Judging

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