#conceal

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good. ↗

— Julian Assange

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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. ↗

— Douglas Feith

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A fault is fostered by concealment. ↗

— Virgil

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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth. ↗

— Richard Posner

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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed. ↗

— Sophocles

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