#conceal

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

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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

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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#conceal #dramatically #interesting #more #rather

Great fear is concealed under daring. ↗

— Lucan

#daring #fear #great #under

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#conceal #game #like #our #play

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

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

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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