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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Hatred
Power
Idealism
Passes
Disguised
Much
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Disguise
Become
Others
Ourselves
End
Accustomed
Disguised
In The End
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
Great
Opportunities
Impossible
Faced
Situations
Disguised
Series
Brilliantly
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Eckhart Tolle
Strength
Power
Others
Weakness
Over
Disguised
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan
Today
Club
Market
Tyrant
Ways
Rules
He
Comfort
Shepherds
His
Fist
Disguised
Researcher
Utility
Flock
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
Great
Opportunities
Problems
Faced
Disguised
Series
Brilliantly
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
Eduardo Galeano
God
Progress
Made
Some
Civilization
Sacred
Almost
Almost All
Name
Perhaps
Trade
Always
Material
Been
Disguised
Interest
Them
Wars
Connected
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
Vernon Howard
Strength
Personality
Dangerous
Dictatorship
Tyranny
Cruelty
Power
Think
Additional
Hesitate
Characteristics
Weaknesses
Outcomes
Folks
Some
Somehow
Seize
Individual
Wrong
Powerful
Because
False
Disguised
Acquired
Notion
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.
Jane Austen
Truth
Complete
Something
Seldom
Mistaken
Disclosure
Does
Very
Any
Human
Disguised
Happen
Little
Belong
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Lee Iacocca
Great
Opportunities
Problems
Faced
Continually
Disguised
Brilliantly
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reality
Better
Our
Virtues
Than
Often
Disguised
Vices
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Patience
Virtue
Minor
Disguised
Form
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Work
Hard Work
Opportunity
Trouble
Always
Disguised
Hard
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
James Agee
Time
Myself
Summer
Tennessee
Talking
Child
Disguised
Successfully
Evenings
Lived
Now
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy
Virtue
Consistent
Selfishness
Disguised
Acknowledged
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Ambition
Secure
Seems
Great One
More
Small
Generosity
Than
Often
Disguised
Order
Which
Interest
I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.
Alan Zweibel
Indeed
Temple
Never
Had
Occasion
Am
Nor
Denied
Referred
Disguised
Bar
Jew
In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.
Bob Beckel
Racism
Lie
Ego
Positions
Suited
Willingness
Sexism
Perfect
Perfect Fit
Coupled
Him
His
Trump
Fit
Disguised
Whenever
Barely
Near
As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
Damon Knight
Science
Poet
Become
Others
Religious
Some
Neurosis
Pointed
Talent
Science Fiction
Still
His
Surprisingly
Effective
Commentary
Disguised
Fiction
Nostalgic
Stories
Social
It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.
Emun Elliott
Shoes
Else
Way
Some
Someone
More
Part
Stepping
Became
Disguised
Reason
Actor
Why
Enjoyable
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia
God
Man
Animal
More
Never
Never Forget
Greatest
Greatest Man
Than
Forget
Disguised
Us
Let Us
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
Gerrit Smith
War
Broken
Peace
Political
Men
Striving
Out
Would
Restore
Superficial
Temporary
Between
False
South
Effect
Commercial
North
Disguised
Which
I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.
Greg Davies
Happy
Comedy
Unhappy
Guard
Security
Would
Fact
Never
Been
Very
Disguised
Wanted
Teaching
Reason
We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.
Jim Murphy
War
Women
Will
Men
Too
Approximately
Exactly
Civil
Civil War
Never
Had
Almost
Know
How
Close
Disguised
Estimated
Low
Themselves
Certainly
Many
Fought
Number
Enlist
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal
Our
Virtues
Most
Frequently
Disguised
Vices
Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
Michael Azerrad
Rebellion
Trick
Absolutely
Safe
Rock
Sound
Still
Commercialism
Roll
Disguised
Much
Use
Used
Chords
Now
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