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The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.


Douglas Feith


#concealing #engage #find #game #government

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.


E. M. Forster


#concealing #distinction #his #notable #revealing

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.


Anthony Trollope


#art #conceal #his #may #novel

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#despised #fears #former #his #latter

A fault is fostered by concealment.


Virgil


#fault #fostered

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.


Adam Weishaupt


#effectual #i #know #lead #means

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.


Alphonse de Lamartine


#becomes #conceals #details #generalities #history

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.


Arlen Specter


#conceal #i #i think #labels #like

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.


Doug Coupland


#bands #big #big companies #built #companies

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.


Blaise Pascal


#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live






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