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- Nov 07, 2020
Concealing Quotes
What's underneath the surface.
Concealing shows up here as both a personal flaw and a creative method — cunning defined outright as the art of hiding one's own defects, and a writer describing an entire book as an act of concealing and revealing at once.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
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Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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