Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Aeschylus

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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi

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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Ben Okri

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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Omar Khayyam

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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Larry Page

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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Salman Rushdie

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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Salman Rushdie

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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Quincy Jones

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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

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God allows challenges in your life so the veil is lifted from your eyes and you can see ‘friends’ for who they are. If hard times don't afflict you, how will you know which of your friends will stop taking your calls and which will be there for you?

Reno Omokri

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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Hilaire Belloc

Life A veil Dark Rough

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, my Government rapidly activated all Emergency Operations Centre pillars. We have instituted international best practices in contact tracing and surveillance.

Julius Maada Bio

In response Pandemic Rapidly activated Emergency operations

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Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

Kabir Das

Life Veil Obscures Heart

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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

The society To protect Complete surveillance Commonwealth

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Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Arthur Miller

Fear Love Is difficult To explain

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

Principles Justice Veil Ignorance

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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Aeschylus

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Ben Okri

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Omar Khayyam

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Larry Page

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Salman Rushdie

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Salman Rushdie

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Quincy Jones

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

God allows challenges in your life so the veil is lifted from your eyes and you can see ‘friends’ for who they are. If hard times don't afflict you, how will you know which of your friends will stop taking your calls and which will be there for you?

Reno Omokri

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Hilaire Belloc

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, my Government rapidly activated all Emergency Operations Centre pillars. We have instituted international best practices in contact tracing and surveillance.

Julius Maada Bio

Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

Kabir Das

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Arthur Miller

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

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