- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hidden Quotes
On secrecy, patience, and quiet truth.
Some creative choices are made deliberately out of sight, staying hidden from outside expectation while a project takes its own shape. That instinct pairs well with searching for More than the obvious answer.
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- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
- Fortress
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hidden nature is secret God.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a hidden Goth in me: I have a dark sense of humour; I have a dark sense of fashion.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around us, we do see attempts to delegitimize Israel, a sort of secret, hidden anti-Semitism growing in many countries, often on the right but also on the left.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
- Depraved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020