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• The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.

  Alí Jamenei

  Exercise, Government, Leader

  Fuente: www.newyorker.com

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• Las partituras de música experimental son enigmáticas, opacas, exigentes, irritantes, humorísticas, infantiles; las mejores, como el Tratado de Cardew, son también inspiradoras, dando lugar, en ocasiones, a una música de vitalidad, inteligencia y elegancia.

  John Tilbury

  Humor, Entrega, Vitalidad

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• Si te fijas en la parte de la GPU disponible para calcular a lo largo del fotograma, varía drásticamente de un instante a otro. Por ejemplo, algo como el renderizado de mapas de sombras opacas ni siquiera utiliza un sombreador de píxeles, sino que se realiza enteramente mediante sombreadores de vértices y el hardware de rasterización, por lo que los gráficos no están utilizando la mayor parte de los 1,8 teraflops de ALU disponibles en las CU. Momentos como ese durante la trama del juego son una oportunidad para decir: "Vale, todo ese cálculo que querías hacer, ponlo al máximo ahora".

  Mark Cerny

  Opportunity, Games, Shadow

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• Olvida lo que aprendiste sobre la poesía en la escuela (que es compleja, opaca, un problema que hay que resolver en 1.500 palabras para mañana). La poesía es la última reserva de la palabra honesta y del corazón franco. Tiene la cadencia de la vida común. Tiene pasión por la verdad, la justicia y la libertad; es una boya para la gente con problemas ordinarios: para un amigo cuya vida ha ido derrapando hacia el meridiano, que ha sido golpeado por malas noticias, que está friendo huevos y patatas fritas y tiene un niño llorón aferrado a la pernera de su pantalón.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Heart, School

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• Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

  Honor Harger

  Technology, Digital, Becoming

  "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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• For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

  Mark Shields

  Crush, Party, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Clouds, Talking

  Entrevista con Austin Allen, bigthink.com. 16 de noviembre de 2009.

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• The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

  James Cameron

  Average, Fans, Details

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

  Will Durant

  Libro, Ojo, Noche

  Will Durant (1931). “Adventures in Genius”

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• Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Self, Veils, Faces

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• Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Eye, Moon, Fire

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• When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Writing, Wish

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 10, 2012

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• The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

  Jane Yolen

  Dark, Mirrors, Light

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Men, Land

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Mind, Trying

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• Una vida es un objeto tan extraño, en un momento translúcido, en otro totalmente opaco, un objeto que hago con mis propias manos, un objeto que se me impone, un objeto para el que el mundo proporciona la materia prima y luego me la vuelve a robar, pulverizada por los acontecimientos, dispersa, rota, marcada pero conservando su unidad; qué pesada es y qué incoherente: esta contradicción engendra muchos malentendidos.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Manos, Rotas, Unidad

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• El paso del tiempo por la memoria es como un vidrio fundido que puede opacarse o cristalizarse en cualquier momento a voluntad: mil días se funden en una conversación, una mirada, una herida, y una herida puede hacerse añicos y esparcirse a lo largo de mil días. Es silenciosa y escurridiza, se niega a ser condenada y gotea día a día; se arremolina en la mente mientras toda una vida puede cabalgar como espuma sobre las olas engañosas y transparentes y rociarse sobre la conciencia a intervalos irregulares e inesperados.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Teacher, Color

  "Caminando con su musa: Entrevista con Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, volumen 8, número 2, 1 th Of July de 2014, páginas 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. 22 de junio de 2013.

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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• ...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Media, Theory

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• The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.

  Maimónides

  Dark, Men, Mind

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

  Ken MacLeod

  Two, Long, World

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• El fondo del ser nos queda lógicamente opaco, un dato en el sentido estricto de la palabra, algo con lo que simplemente nos topamos y encontramos, y sobre lo que (si queremos actuar) debemos detenernos y preguntarnos lo menos posible. En esta confesión reside la verdad duradera del empirismo.

  William James

  Lying, Data, Wish

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Art, Reality, Subjectivity

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• The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Imagination, Shadow, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.89, Lulu.com

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