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appearance

«Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.»
«Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.»
«Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.»
«Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.»
«Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.»
«Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance»
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
«Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.»
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Appearance | Keywords: appearance, superficial
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»

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