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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

Topics: Behavior Being Communication Concealing Defense Hiding Human Human Being Language Motives Preventing Sometimes Thoughts Way Your

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More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Between Companies Concealing Continents Different Estate Flying Homes Jets Live Many More More And More Multiple Perhaps Place Private Purchases Real Real Estate Shell Them Through Trusts Web

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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

Topics: Being Belly Big Concealing Consequences Exposed Least May Opportunity People Pleasure Poorer Seldom Servants Sin Sort Stolen Substance Without Women

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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

Topics: Birth Breakdown Concealing Crisis Effect Moral New Order Presenting Progressive Rhetoric Social Them

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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.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Appear Blindness Complete Concealing Death Each Fact Frighten Ground Headlights In Fact Level Me Night Part Question Running Safety Simply Suffered Temporary Toward Truly Used Whether While Would

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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

Topics: Cat Concealing Engage Find Game Government Hussein Inspection Iraqi Mechanism Mouse Purpose Saddam Saddam Hussein Try Un Weapons Working

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

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Conceal Concealing Ever Evidence Existed Going Think Thoughts You

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Book Conceal Concealing Ever Evidence Existed Going Join Think Thoughts You

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

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Between Concealing Distinction His Notable Revealing Something Very Vulgarity

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I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

~Emraan Hashmi

Topics: About Acting Characters Concealing Different Drama Flawed Generally Grey Interpretation Like Me Never People Perception Popular Relate Roles Would

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