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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.


Christopher Lasch


#breakdown #concealing #crisis #effect #moral

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'


Hugh Laurie


#big #buy #conceal #counter #dashed

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#concealed #enemy #enterprise #execution #likely

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.


Bernard de Mandeville


#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.


Marcus Valerius Martial


#flaw #imagine #will #world #worst

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.


Abraham Maslow


#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.


Rick Moody


#concealing #itself #process #revealing #writing

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#also #conceal #means #much #oneself

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.


David Ogilvy


#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.


Origen


#being #concealed #knew #made #manifest






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