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  • Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. -- Mark Epstein
  • The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. -- Leonard Cohen
  • One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person. -- Tom Rath
  • We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science. -- Charles Kettering
  • Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. -- Richard Rohr
  • Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment -- Aldous Huxley
  • Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth. -- Walid Jumblatt
  • The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail. -- Kenneth Coutts-Smith
  • I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. -- Billy Corgan
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  • Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards. -- Rian Johnson
  • Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means â??an uncoveringâ??). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled. -- Lewis Hyde
  • Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential. -- Tom Rath
  • The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. -- Gunnar Myrdal
  • It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity. -- Daniel Dennett
  • Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse. -- Alice Miller
  • Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
  • The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's. -- Erich Fromm
  • Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. [...] It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see.... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed. -- Jose Saramago
  • I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows! -- Pete Seeger
  • If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. -- Candice Millard
  • Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe... -- Masaru Emoto
  • Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. -- Ted Andrews
  • Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. -- Coleman Barks
  • The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable. -- Robert D Bullard
  • Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species. -- Jean-Marie Lehn
  • Professional/personal coaching addresses the whole person - with an emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living. -- Laura Whitworth
  • Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era. -- Seth Shostak
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  • A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. -- Evgeny Morozov
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