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  • There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Camille Paglia Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barry McGuire So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Winston Churchill We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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