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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
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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
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The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea.

Joseph Conrad
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Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

Bell Hooks
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Arcadia has honest people. No one has a pretense. It does not matter who you are or what you do, everyone is treated the same. I like that.

Jim Mclaughlin
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Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

Carter Heyward
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Churchill
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For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire.

David Ford
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Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis
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