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- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
- After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and… — Edward Hopper
- There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver
- Good design is not an applied veneer. — Raymond Loewy
- Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer. — Andrew Hacker
- The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic;… — T. Coleman du Pont
- ...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil
- It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family… — Shirley Jackson