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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. -- Emile M. Cioran
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. -- Theodore Roosevelt
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. -- Henry Knox
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another. -- Kate Christensen
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. -- Breyten Breytenbach
I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash. -- Steve Coogan
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity -- Joseph Goebbels
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray

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