“ There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Those who seek to criticize this legislation under the guise of environmental concerns have it backwards as the use of the authority is specifically to protect public health. ”
- James Inhofe- Copy
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“ Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
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“ Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. ”
- Felicia Hemans- Copy
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“ Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul. ”
- Stevie Smith- Copy
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“ There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic. ”
- David Lehman- Copy
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“ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ I think it's a great album, but it came out at the wrong time. We got a bad deal and it was a very weird time. Without getting to into it, it was not the right time to do what we did. When we went into it, I wasn't sure about it and I told the guys that, but once I understood it more, I got into it just as much as everyone else. ”
- Eric Carr- Copy
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“ It appears to be a case of taking advantage of the fact that the vault door is open. It could be an attempt to make a relatively small-scale repair into a major renovation project under the guise of an emergency. ”
- John Hart- Copy
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“ If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. ”
- Minoru Yamasaki- Copy
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“ If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport,... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society… ”
- Michael Johnson- Copy
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“ There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself, it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it, we are at once enslaved by him. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att. ”
- Mary Montagu- Copy
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“ The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess… ”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- Copy
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“ It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating a semblance of a world out of airy matter … This wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus make it a bright transparency … to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant… ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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