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Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. — Criss Jami
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic… — Janet Napolitano
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around… — Mark Z. Danielewski
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. — Walter Lippmann
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at themâ€”and by laughing at them destroy them? For… — Mark Twain
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. — Frantz Fanon
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the… — Mark Twain
DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT. — Terry Pratchett
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect… — Carl Jung
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.… — Isaac Asimov
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that… — John D. MacDonald
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration. — Lewis Carroll

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