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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
james clavell— André Delambre
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.
catherine doherty— Sobornost
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
frantz fanon— "The Lived Experience of the Black Man," from Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
We need each other / We believe in one another / And I know we're gonna uncover / What's sleeping in our souls"
Noel Gallagher— Acquiesce, released 24 April 1995
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?
Germaine Greer— Sorrow (pg. 189)
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera— New York Review of Books (19 July 1984)
There are no limits to what science can explore. The man of the future will be dedicated to individualism. To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.
ernest solvay— quoted by Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn (1999). The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 3-764-35705-3.
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
kenneth rexroth— Catullus (p. 28)
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
— By John Irving QuotationsBook.com. Quotes about Fiction. Quotations Book. p. 6. GGKEY:LY0WH9CXD4G.
Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.
Robertson Davies— Robertson Davies, Cornish Trilogy, The Rebel Angels, The New Aubrey III, section 2 (1981)
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.
— Sobornost
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the L ORD . The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
— The Bible, Leviticus 18:6-7 (KJV)
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
— Leviticus 18:9 (KJV)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister.
— Leviticus 18:12 (KJV)
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
— Leviticus 20:19 (KJV)
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible uncover me
juliana hatfield— Sunshine (In Exile Deo (2004))
uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet, Flag famed in song and story Long may it wave, old glory The flag that has never known defeat.
— Charles L. Benjamin and George D. Sutton, The Flag That Has Never Known Defeat.
The bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of declining Athens through its fall and Macedonia through its decline and fall. Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states... buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.
Robert Pirsig— Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Chapter 29 (1974)
