#distort

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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.


Samuel E. Morison


#child #distorted #history #knows #lenses

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.


George Soros


#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.


Shakti Gawain


#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.


Gerald Vann


#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.


Ron Perlman


#distortions #irrational #like #lot #my self

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#distortion #poetry #beauty

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...


John Geddes


#ice #mirror #reflection #beauty

Iubirea e banală. Îți provoacă o intoxicație chimică foarte asemănătoare cu aceea dată de o reușită mult așteptată sau de mersul cu mare viteză. În acele momente, nu mai ținem cont de nimic și ne concentrăm doar asupra propriei noastre delectări; viața de zi cu zi ne este distorsionată și devenim iraționali: ne simțim fericiți și ni se pare că totul este posibil.


Liza Marklund


#happiness #life #love #moments #possibility

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.


Loretta Young


#distorts #every #face #fall #feature

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#been #black #distorted #either #history