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Subtle interventions are the whispered threads of an unseen mastery, weaving change in silence instead of the pomp of revolution.
Author:
Elara Hadeen
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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Naked is the best disguise.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
Author:
John Webster
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Author:
Bishop South
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Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Author:
George Santayana
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Author:
Thomas More
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Author:
James Lowell
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Author:
John Locke
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Author:
Erica Jong
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Author:
Jerome
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Author:
Brit Hume
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There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
Author:
Bob Graham
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Author:
Pam Gems
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
Author:
Allan Dwan
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
Author:
Kitty Collins
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Author:
Jackie Collins
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With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
Author:
Judy Chicago
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We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
Author:
Alex Campbell
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They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
Author:
Jello Biafra
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Author:
Margaret Atwood
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The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Author:
Mark Akenside
