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Appearance |
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| "Appearances often are deceiving." |
| -- Aesop (620-560 BC), Greek fabulist |
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| "All is not gold that glitters." |
| -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish
writer |
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"Fine words and
insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
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| -- Confucius ( 551?-479? BC), Chinese sage |
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| ""The opinions we hold of one
another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense
permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea
itself." |
| -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer |
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| "It is only shallow people who do not
judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible,
not the invisible." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer, playwright |
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| "If it looks like a duck, and
quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility
that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our
hands." |
| -- Douglas Noel Adams (1952- ), British author |
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| "When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." |
| -- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922),
Scottish-born American inventor |
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| "Where the world ceases to be the scene of
our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings
admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and
Science." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "The memory of that scene for me is like a
frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the
green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president
and his first lady." |
| -- Richard Nixon (1913-94), 37th U.S. President |
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| "Appearance is reality to the uninitiated.
To the wise, reality starts with appearances and ends with a reality
constructed of meanings sensate, rational, and intuitive in
nature." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American
writer |
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| “Do
not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly,
with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as
far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things
which relate to your profession.” |
| -- Isaac Watts (1674-1748), English hymn writer |
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| "The most common error made in matters of
appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and
let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places
on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you
are leaking." |
| -- Fran Lebowitz (1951- ), American journalist |
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| "One does not discover new lands without
consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." |
| -- André Gide (1869-1951), French writer, |
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| "Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take
an insect view of its plain." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American
writer, naturalist |
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| "Time is a sort of river of passing
events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to
sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too
will be swept away." |
| -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Roman
Emperor |
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| "One of the most untruthful things
possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be
made to appear so many different ways." |
| -- Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (1893-1990),
American psychiatrist |
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