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• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
• Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with… — Sun Tzu
• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing… — Walt Whitman
• A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels
• On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead
• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible… — Unknown Author
• That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth… — Henry Knox
• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another… — David Cortright
• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and… — Chaim Weizmann
• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency,… — Breyten Breytenbach
• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge

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