#appear

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

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I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!' ↗

— Demetri Martin

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Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

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Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. ↗

— Daniel Morgan

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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves. ↗

— Bob Newhart

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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#designed #give #language #lies #make

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him. ↗

— Kathleen Winsor

#behind #dogs #him #his #king

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#appearance #beauty #fiction #victorian #youth

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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