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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus
• The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard
• Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. — Thomas Browne
• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana
• The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur
• The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos
• Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly
• Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh
• Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox
• The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey
• Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere

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