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• You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

  Ken Follett

  Taken, Voice, Matter

  Ken Follett (2007). “World Without End”, p.1083, Penguin

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• And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center,the Greek facades of our government builidings in Washington. I defy you to find any American city where the Olympians are not proeminently displayed, in multiple places. Like it or not-and believe me,plenty of people weren't very found of Rome,either-America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the West.And so Olympus is here.And we are here.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Heart, Cities

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• History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Happy Life, Government, Political

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• HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Two, Creating, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

  Jeff Mangum

  Pain, Nice, Buddhism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that, you know, Russia is full of themselves. They've always been full of themselves. But that's - it's more of a facade that they try and show as opposed to anything else.

  Nikki Haley

  Thinking, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

  Wyclef Jean

  Kids, Being True

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

  David LaChapelle

  Believe, Cracks, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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• My father deprived me of any truths about himself. He died without ever letting me know who he truly was. I only knew his facades, basically. And it breaks my heart that he never trusted me enough to tell me the truth.

  Joshua Mohr

  Father, Heart, Never Trust

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Kids, Years

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

  Harry Hay

  Littles, Sissy, Shows

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.

  William A. Rusher

  People, Done, Operations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

  Robert Ringer

  Majority Rule, Fancy, Unlimited

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• Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Money, Wall, Lying

  "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

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• To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Benefits, Jargon

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• The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Frustration, Finding Love

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• The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pain, Light, Heartache

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