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• I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

  Ismael Reed

  Thinking, Style, Amber

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

  Jamie Dimon

  Risk, Management, Complexes

  "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Block, Mind, Labels

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.15, New World Library

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• We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Goes On, Who We Are

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

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• Las mujeres posheridas saben que las posturas de dolor responden a concepciones limitadas y anticuadas de la feminidad. Su dolor tiene un nuevo lenguaje nativo hablado en varios dialectos: sarcástico, hastiado, opaco; frío e inteligente. Se protegen de los momentos en los que el melodrama o la autocompasión podrían romper sus cuidadas costuras intelectuales y dejar al descubierto la vergüenza del ensimismamiento sin conciencia de sí mismas.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

  Sally Phillips

  Winter, Spiders, Tights

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• Más que su transparencia utilitaria y tecnocrática, es la opaca ambivalencia de sus rarezas lo que hace que la ciudad sea habitable.

  Michel de Certeau

  Oddities, Cities, Transparency

  Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol (1998). "La práctica de la vida cotidiana: Vivir y cocinar. Volume 2", p.134, U of Minnesota Press

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• Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Espiritual, Ateo, Ser

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• Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned, the information can be woefully inadequate, they are sometimes seen to be opaque and their advertising is clearly recognised as not being of a global standard. For local brands, quality, innovation and transparency are critical hills to climb.

  Miles Young

  Business, Pride, Worry

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• Nadie se ha reído nunca de un juego de palabras sin ver en él un doble significado. Para los materialistas, este mundo es opaco como una cortina; no se puede ver nada a través de él. Una montaña es sólo una montaña, una puesta de sol es sólo una puesta de sol; pero para los poetas, los artistas y los santos, el mundo es transparente como el cristal de una ventana: habla de algo más allá: ..... Una montaña habla del Poder de Dios, la puesta de sol de Su Belleza, y el copo de nieve de Su Pureza.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Arzobispo Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). "Estos son los Sacramentos", p.5, Aeterna Press.

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• En cuanto al sistema de fe cristiano, me parece una especie de ateísmo, una especie de negación religiosa de Dios. Profesa creer en un hombre más que en Dios. Es un compuesto hecho principalmente de manismo con un poco de deísmo, y está tan cerca del ateísmo como el crepúsculo de la oscuridad. Introduce entre el hombre y su Creador un cuerpo opaco, al que llama Redentor, como la luna introduce su ser opaco entre la tierra y el sol, y produce por este medio un eclipse religioso, o irreligioso, de luz. Ha puesto en la sombra toda la órbita de la razón.

  Thomas Paine

  Cristiano, Religioso, Creer

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.26, e-artnow

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• French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Prose Poetry, Use

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

  Martha Ronk

  Moving, Body, Lines

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Fashion, Real, Independent

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Understanding, Over You

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

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• Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Glasses, Bees

  Henry Ward Beecher Augusta Moore (1859). "Notas desde el púlpito de Plymouth: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room", p.57

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• I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

  Paul Banks

  Talking, Quality, Strange

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Poetry, Literature, Pebbles

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• When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Needs, Intensity

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• ...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Want, Spirit, Materialism

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). "La Corte de Bowen"

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• I had kept opaque
  Down deeper than the canyons undersea
  The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
  Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

  Allen Tate

  Lakes, Saws, Sullen

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.136, Macmillan

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• The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lucha, Orden, Ley

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Character, Elude You

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• The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Predicaments

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• Aunque tendemos a concebir las operaciones de la mente como unificadas y transparentes, en realidad son caóticas y opacas. No hay un jefe invisible en el cerebro, ni un significante central, ni un yo unitario al mando de nuestras actividades y expresiones. No hay ningún espectador interno de un teatro cartesiano en nuestras cabezas que aplauda la marcha de la conciencia por su escenario.

  Daniel Dennett

  Self, Boss, Brain

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