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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way  (Veneer Quotes) Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness  (Veneer Quotes) The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer  (Veneer Quotes) Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer  (Veneer Quotes) Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion  (Veneer Quotes) Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment  (Veneer Quotes) It’s the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man  (Veneer Quotes) Good design is not an applied veneer  (Veneer Quotes) Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good  (Veneer Quotes) Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism  (Veneer Quotes) I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer  (Veneer Quotes) The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn’t it? We’re reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization  (Veneer Quotes) In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn’t long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay’s life began to shatter  (Veneer Quotes) There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn’t worth anything  (Veneer Quotes) In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn’t long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay’s life began to shatter.  (Veneer Quotes) The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!  (Veneer Quotes) Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.  (Veneer Quotes) The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.  (Veneer Quotes) Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I’m a complete disaster  (Veneer Quotes) The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything  (Veneer Quotes) Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter’s drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects us from the pine needles and beetles, but it also obscures them, as well as the soft moss, fragrant soil, and the teeming complexity of nature’s bed. In moments, however, we catch glints and feel the breezes of something more direct, something outside that self system  (Veneer Quotes) ... no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants  (Veneer Quotes) Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity  (Veneer Quotes) Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence  (Veneer Quotes) Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer  (Veneer Quotes) It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. That make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands  (Veneer Quotes) In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design  (Veneer Quotes)