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• President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, President, President Obama

  "As president, Trump sings a different tune on 'transparency'" by Philip Eil, www.cjr.org. January 31, 2017.

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• But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  "The Complete Bushisms". Media roundtable, Washington, D.C., www.slate.com. March 13, 2001.

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• A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

  Walter Gropius

  Lying, Design, Building

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• There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

  Eric Zorn

  Change, Talking, Priorities

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• When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

  David Antin

  Growing Up, Fluency, Language

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• ...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

  Reinhold Messner

  Rivers, Mountain, Body

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• Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?

  Walter Huston

  People, Looks

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• In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Mistake, Believe, Science

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

  Jean-Cyril Spinetta

  Motivational, Integrity, Trying

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• How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Wisdom, Moonlight

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• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

  Bill Roorbach

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.320, Ignatius Press

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

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• An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

  Tom Coburn

  Sunshine, Practice, Government

  "Tracking Federal Hurricane Aid Poses a Challenge" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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• To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

  Deepika Padukone

  People, Mind, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

  Bing Crosby

  Thinking, Years, Talent

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• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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• A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

  Eric S. Raymond

  Simple, Brain, Looks

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.19, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

  Jerry Pinto

  Strong, Long, People

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• The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

  Michael Hyatt

  Character, Opportunity, People

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• History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Roots, Challenges, Analysis

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

  Virginia Postrel

  Giving, World, Opaque

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