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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
Truth
Communication
Language
Tool
Concealing
Large
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Good
Think
Other
Consists
Ourselves
Concealing
How
How Much
Person
Little
Much
Breeding
Good Breeding
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
Thoughts
Communication
Human Being
Sometimes
Behavior
Language
Defense
Way
Hiding
Preventing
Concealing
Motives
Human
Being
Your
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
Thoughts
You
Book
Think
Evidence
Join
Conceal
Concealing
Existed
Going
Ever
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
Women
People
Opportunity
Big
Consequences
Pleasure
Seldom
Concealing
Sin
Sort
Without
Least
Stolen
May
Substance
Being
Poorer
Exposed
Servants
Belly
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thoughts
You
Think
Evidence
Conceal
Concealing
Existed
Going
Ever
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
Art
People
Own
Other
Our
Weaknesses
Concealing
Discovering
Cunning
Defects
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Art
Patience
Impatience
Concealing
Your
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.
Glenn Greenwald
Job
Controlling
Aide
President
President Obama
Extreme
Way
Punishing
Embarrassing
Obama
Unprecedented
Concealing
Obsession
Journalists
Beyond
Enable
Least
His
Effort
Anyone
Information
Speaking
Theoretically
Who
Stands
Even
Serve
Dispute
Flow
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.
Rod Rosenstein
Silence
Criminal
Following
Federal
Investigation
Open
Simply
Concealing
Concealment
Prosecutors
Policy
Context
Quietly
Refrain
Anything
Information
Agents
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
Birth
Progressive
Crisis
Moral
Concealing
New
Effect
New Order
Order
Rhetoric
Breakdown
Social
Them
Presenting
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
Death
Me
Safety
Complete
Would
Running
Temporary
Fact
Part
Simply
Concealing
Toward
Headlights
Blindness
Truly
Question
Frighten
In Fact
Whether
While
Used
Ground
Appear
Each
Suffered
Level
Night
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
Distinction
Something
Concealing
Between
Vulgarity
Revealing
His
Very
Notable
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Karen Duffy
Water
Beach
Concealing
Like
Ball
Illness
Keeping
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
Karl Ove Knausgard
You
Will
Value
Shameful
Lead
Never
Concealing
Anything
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
Rick Moody
Book
Writing
Concealing
Revealing
Itself
Process
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
Robert Dallek
Voting
Presidency
True
Concealing
Tradition
Condition
American
Public
Medical
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.
Sharon Bolton
Beautiful
Myself
Beneath
Find
Lies
Perfect
Exceptionally
Environment
Concealing
Idea
Surface
Whenever
Asking
Help
Fascinated
Rotten
Core
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