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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

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

— E. M. Forster

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. ↗

— George Carlin

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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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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

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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

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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

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