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• One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Moving, Dust, Cities

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• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  Eliphas Levi

  Weakness, Vices, Poison

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

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• The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

  Frantz Fanon

  Evil, Language, Bigger

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• She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Stones, Ever After

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• Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Illusion, Deceiving

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• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Order, Europe, Leader

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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• All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Want, Realizing

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• If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

  Justina Chen

  Attitude, Makeup, Clothes

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.

  Toni Packer

  Memories, Past, Self

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

  Chinua Achebe

  Dancing, World, Want

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jun 03, 2014

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• Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Angel, Black, Faces

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1028, Discovery House

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• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  William Goldman

  Running, Stupid, Men

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.100, A&C Black

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• Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

  Meher Baba

  Mirrors, Expression, Mind

  "Meher Baba on God-realization: The Practical Side of Self-realization".

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• There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

  William Whewell

  Nature, Faces, Theory

  William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History”, p.42

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• America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Obamacare, America

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• As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet is one of my faves. (Zeth) I’m not touching that one with tongs and a gas mask. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Self, Touching

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• Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

  Phil Cousineau

  Mean, Journey, Finding Yourself

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• Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

  Catharine Arnold

  Horse, Taken, Warrior

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Skins

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You”, p.13, Random House

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• his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Curiosity, Mysterious, Resources

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• I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

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• In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Rights, Names

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• When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

  Paul Hirsch

  Watches, Pace, Influence

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• Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

  Jason Whitlock

  Queens, Kings, Pride

  "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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• The woman in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either "quiet" or "good."

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Stress, Lying, Moving

  "Childbirth Without Fear: The Original Approach to Natural Childbirth".

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