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• Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

  William Hazlitt

  Funny, Art, Growth

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.23

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• Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.

  Laura Riding

  Communication, Self, Understanding

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

  Patrick Leahy

  Want, Privacy, Realizing

  "Sen. Patrick Leahy: 'Our Privacy Is Part Of Our Security'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 3, 2015.

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• This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  Teacher, Giving, Perfect

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Mistake, School, Emotional

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• If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Errors, Criticism, Ifs

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.

  Rebecca Loos

  Heart, Phones, News

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• Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

  Matthew Nable

  Writing, Character, Giving

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• I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

  Mike White

  Smart, Writing, People

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• Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Air, Ideas

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• He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Wall, Feelings

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

  Aldrich Ames

  Law, Punishment, Names

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• By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

  Norman McLaren

  Two, Drawing, Patterns

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• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  Chris Colfer

  Real, Gay, People

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Eye, Numbers

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Galileo Galilei, 1957.

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• Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main route of exposure to volatile pollutants in tap water, such as solvents, pesticides, and byproducts of water chlorination. As soon as the toilet is flushed or the faucet turned on-or the bathtub, the shower, the humidifier, the washing machine-these contaminants leave the water and enter the air. A recent study shows that the most efficient way of exposing yourself to chemical contaminants in tap water is to turn on a dishwasher.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Drinking, Air, Breathing

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• I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

  Laura Mullen

  Safety, Arbitrary, Protection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

  James Fox

  Yoga, Practice, Class

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• God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heaven, Suffering, Poison

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.

  Maria Semple

  World, Want, Scared

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

  Wayne White

  Documentaries, Painful, Dramatic

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

  Tommy Chong

  Jobs, Republican, Great Job

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Thanks, Shameless

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