Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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But all God's angels come to us disguised...
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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The essential, but often well-disguised, purpose of intelligent design, is to preserve the myth of a separate, divine creation for humans in the belief that only that can explain who we are. But there is a destructive hubris, a fearful arrogance, in that myth. It sets us apart from nature, except to dominate it. It misses both the grace and the moral depth of knowing that humans have only the same stake, the same right, in the Earth as every other creature that has ever lived here. There is a righteousness - a responsibility - in the deep, ancestral origins we share with all of life.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
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No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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