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Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls. -- Michael Jackson
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. -- Thomas Szasz
I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. -- Marina and the Diamonds
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news. -- Nate Silver
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. -- Nancy Pearcey
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. -- Kim Gordon
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. -- Tony Wilson
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. -- Colin Quinn
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius. -- Richard Flanagan
I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome. -- Anna Kendrick
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. -- John McCain
A fetish is a story masquerading as an object. -- Robert Stoller
Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. -- Alfie Kohn
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. -- R. D. Laing
Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth. -- Rod Dreher
Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good. -- Mardy Grothe
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. -- J. I. Packer
Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness -- John McPhee
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. -- David Mitchell
Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure. -- L. Neil Smith
Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. -- Dan McCall
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. -- Marlon Riggs
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. -- Sara Genn
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. -- Thorstein Veblen
No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
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Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science. -- Barry W. Lynn
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. -- Vernon Howard
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. -- Eric Maisel
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga. -- Gary Kraftsow
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy. -- Sydney J. Harris
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again. -- Roger Ebert
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism. -- Camille Paglia
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white. -- Kevin Zraly
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy. -- John McCain
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation. -- David Cannadine
A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category ? gentlemen masquerading as beasts? -- Sabrina Jeffries
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive. -- Anne Lamott
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness. -- Eckhart Tolle
What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor? -- Jello Biafra
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love. -- Erich Fromm
Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns. -- Josh Sugarmann
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. -- Thucydides
The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present. -- David Mitchell
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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