Exposed Quotes - Page 28

• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

  William Shenstone

  Essence, Bears, Virtue

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

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• With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Easy, Enough

  Henry Fielding (1782). “The Beauties of Fielding: Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.199

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• NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  New York, School, Two

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

  Donald Glover

  Rapper, People, Connotation

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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• The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, People

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

  J. G. Holland

  Fall, Men, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 577, 1895.

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• When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

  Don Feder

  War, Sand, Anatomy

  "Why We Keep Getting Islam Wrong". www.israel-commentary.org. February 25, 2003.

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• Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

  PZ Myers

  Philosophy, Confused, Men

  "Alvin Plantinga Gives Philosophy a Bad Name". Personal blog, freethoughtblogs.com. May 29, 2009.

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• So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

  Hank Green

  Intellectual, Underwear, Goes On

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers"/ "Stop Embarrassing Yourself", www.youtube.com. September 27, 2010.

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• The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, May, Vexation

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

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• Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

  Bret Harte

  Love, Men, Disease

  Bret Harte (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)”, p.6563, Delphi Classics

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Vulnerable, Tempest

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.

  Isaac Barrow

  Adversity, Men, Degrees

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• It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.

  Camille Paglia

  Letting Go, Attitude, Reading

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

  Antonin Artaud

  Distance, Theatre, Danger

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• Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Simple, Political, Want

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975). “Coping: On the Practice of Government”, Vintage Books USA

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• I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Degrees, Abstinence, Homosexuality

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.46, Northwestern University Press

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• I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Decision, Morality, Situation

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.529, Macmillan

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• Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

  Calvin Ayre

  Clothes, Gambling, Government

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