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“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
Jim Morrison quotes (American Poet and Singer. Member of the American band The Doors and one of rock music's mythic figures. 1943-1971)
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“If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”
William A. Sunday quotes
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“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
french_horn_quee Eric Hoffer quotes (American Writer, 1902-1983)
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“Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.”
Dean Koontz quotes (American author)
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“War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization”
Omar Bradley quotes (American, US General,commanded US ground forces in Normandy invasion in World War II, 1893-1981)
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“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events”
Jonathan Swift quotes (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)

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“I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.”
Henry Miller quotes (American Author and Writer, 1891-1980)
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“Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.”
David Harold Fink quotes (American medical doctor and author 1894-1968)

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“The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.”
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“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength”

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“He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense”
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“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
Aleister Crowley quotes (English poet, author, philosopher, 1875-1947)
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“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
Tennessee Williams quotes (American playwright. 1911-1983)
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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”
Emmet Fox quotes (American influential Author and Lecturer, 1886-1951)
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“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)
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“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
Noah Webster quotes (American Man of letter and lexicographer, known for his American Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language. 1758-1843)

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