Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce."
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Covering
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else."
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"I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection"
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"My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up."
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"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
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"Covering discretion with a coat of folly."
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"Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow"
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"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
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"Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues."
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"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."
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"I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically."
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"I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up."
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"Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies."
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"I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas."
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"Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning."
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"Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle."
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"As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves."
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"If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka ."
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"Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama."
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"Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress."
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"He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop."
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"A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else."
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