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many on the right confuse the is of globalization with the ought of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. One, The Rabbis Three Questions, p. 7 -
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
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If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around.
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but murder.
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My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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