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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… — Jean Larteguy
The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom… — Jean Larteguy
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but… — Laozi
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. — Carl Van Vechten
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. — Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. — Seneca the Younger
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display? — Seneca the Younger
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness.… — Camille Paglia
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. — Jerry Rubin
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a… — H.G. Wells
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted… — John Dewey
Talent is truth on display. — Terry Rossio
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others… — P.J. O'Rourke
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human… — Oswald Chambers
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As… — Kevin Martin
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions… — Jacques Vallee

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