#covered

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Eliot

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I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

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I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself. ↗

— Derek Fisher

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And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them. ↗

— Emma Watson

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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. ↗

— Mae West

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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

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