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


Rick Moody


#concealing #itself #process #revealing #writing

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.


Janet Napolitano


#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.


Jean Paul


#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.


David Riesman


#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

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

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

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.


Edwin M. Stanton


#before #commission #concealment #conspirators #death

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.


Khalil Gibran


#arcane #concealed #obvious #step #toward






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