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Cover Ups

48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

"If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it."

Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

"Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned."

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
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"I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song.""

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