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We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.
Hiding and waiting
For the worst
Or the end
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
A lie is an excuse guarded
Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery
These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.
veiled insubordination that he
I don't flee. I evade.
Running away can also be running to.
There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
Compromises are often built on their being unspoken.
Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
a wonder you've evaded the government for so long - but you can't hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk. I have no sympathy for a criminal, I remind myself harshly. Just a score to settle.
All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.
Lies can run but they can't hide
A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.
attempting to block progress.
Withholding distorts reality.
The subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it. As
It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.
Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.
Hidden truths are unspoken lies
To those who say that escaping is not courageous, we answer: what is not escape and social investment at the same time?
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
Secrets and lies ... Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives.
To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the
situation.
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An excuse is a lie guarded.
The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.
Strategy is figuring out what not to do.
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.
People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
Words, once spoken, are too fast to be caught.
There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go?
Hide or shine?
In some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
Ambiguity - the Devil's volleyball.
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.
When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs
We pursue that which retreats from us.
For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger
To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
I hide, I protect, I pretend.
Lie can run but they can't hide
Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last
Where's the line, Sarah? What separates an informal effort from a rogue operation?" "Success," she countered. "And secrecy.
There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans only among our allies, and to name our allies accurately.
Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
Understanding is a delaying tactic.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
Immaculate Deception.
We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.
Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
It becomes a game, whispered and breathless.
"I hide who I am."
"I fight with the dead."
"I lie to the living."
"I am alone.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
I see two options,' said Damon. 'Running or fleeing.'
'They're the same thing.'
'Fleeing's more ... dramatic.
A conversational roadblock.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.
He who asks the questions cannot avoid the answers
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Confrontation, n.: You turn away from the truth when asked to face it, while I stare at it too long, until it becomes a blur.
Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
The thrill of being ignored!
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Sometimes duty required a man to do things he would do almost anything to avoid.
Compromised commitments today lead to creative excuses tomorrow.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.
Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
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.
It is better to avoid than to run, better to run than to de-escalate, better to de-escalate than to fight, better to fight than to die.
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
To avoid discovery I stay on the run.
To discover things for myself, I stay on the run ...
One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While