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«Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.»
Author: David Harold Fink | Keywords: denying, pretenses
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
«You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.»
«Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: built up, emptiness, pretenses
«The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.»
Author: John Tillotson | Keywords: pretenses, transparent
«War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization»
Author: Omar Bradley (General) | About: War | Keywords: debasement, pretenses, wretched
«The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.»
«Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.»

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