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  • Hypocrisies and superpower malfeasance aside, that was the intent.

    Simon Adams: Russia Veto Simon Adams 2012

  • Hypocrisies haven't missed a beat between administrations.

    Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Obama: The Words and the Missing Actions 2010

  • Hypocrisies are not encouraged in them, as they often are in their free sisters.

    Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982

  • Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Scandals Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like

    John Adams diary 47, 13 February 1778 - 26 April 1779 1961

  • O ye Hypocrisies and Speciosities, Royal mantles, Cardinal plushcloaks, ye Credos, Formulas, Respectabilities, fair-painted Sepulchres full of dead men's bones, -- behold, ye appear to us to be altogether a Lie.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Phantasms which have too long nestled thick there, under those astonishing "Defenders of the Faith," -- Defenders of the Hypocrisies, the spiritual Vampires and obscene Nightmares, under which England lies in syncope; -- this is what you need; and if you cannot get it, you must die, my poor friend!

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Blackguardisms, Hypocrisies, Injustices, and legion of human and infernal angels, to that of eloquent Mr. Hesperus Fiddlestring denouncing capital punishments, and inculcating the benevolence on platforms, what a road have we travelled!

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Hypocrisies are lighter or more grave in the measure of the confirmation against God and of the outward rationalizing in favor of God.

    Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • 'Hypocrisies are of that nature, that they spread themselves over the mind as the leprosy does over the body.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Hypocrisies and long-kept secrets are revealed as the changing times are amusingly imposed on everyone by several unexpected events.

    icLiverpool 2009

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