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Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Kobe Bryant

Trying, Fans, Figures

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Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lying, Past, Circles

Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reading, Independent, Two

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The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

Helen Hunt

Heart, Secret, May

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There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Christian, Character, Adversity

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Still and pale
Thou movest in thy silver veil,
Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
Of many a mild, transparent cloud
Hides, yet adorns thee.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Queens, Moon, Night

Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

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The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

Theodor Adorno

Fall, Eye, Self

Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.

V. S. Naipaul

Writing, Wish, Want Him

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In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.

Hans Christian Andersen

Children, Wall, Eye

Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed. Simply rest in this transparent, nondual present awareness. Make yourself at home in the natural state of pure presence, just being, not doing anything in particular.

Jamgon Kongtrul

Home, Naked, Looks

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The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

Joshua Reynolds

Blue, Color, Yellow

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I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

William J. Clinton

Government, Years, Two

"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Bodhidharma

Reality, Opposites, Understanding

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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

John M. Ford

Believe, Expression, People

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When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

Anna Eshoo

Data, Use, Share

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To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

Eike Batista

Powerful, America, Track

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Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

Victor Cousin

Art, Struggle, Giving

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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Gavyn Davies

Thinking, Views, Long

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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Bob Barr

Office, President, Records

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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

George Eliot

Lying, Thinking, Yellow

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

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You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Hosea Ballou

Judging, Soul, Quality

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Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

Yoko Ono

Fall, Evening Light, Light

Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

Macklemore

Artist, Able, Life Is

"Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

Happy Rhodes

Book, Heart, Air

Song: Words Weren't Made for Cowards, Album: Warpaint

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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

Octavio Paz

Art, Passion, Light

"The Monkey Grammarian". Book by Octavio Paz, Ch. 2, 1974.

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