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"You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjold
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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Riches cover a multitude of woes." »Menander
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"You can cover a great deal of country in books." »Andrew Lang
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"Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins." »Mae West
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"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known." »Thomas Pickering
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"Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism." »Hedrick Smith
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"There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week." »Author Unknown
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment." »Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
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"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us." »Alexis Carrel
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"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel." »Faith Sullivan
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"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." »Al Franken
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"Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds." »Hugh Elliott
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"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing." »H. Stanley Judd
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." »Albert Einstein
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"I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks." »Real Live Preacher
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"Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." »This Is Spinal Tap
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"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" »Benjamin Franklin
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"Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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