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“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”

Should Shows Doctors Mirrors Patient Opaque

Book:The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis

Source: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis

“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”

Shows Age Middle Members Hatred Mirrors Aging Mortality Middle Ages Family Members

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.”

Art Shows Reality Artist Culture Mirrors Constant Historical Objectives Purifying True Reality Overseeing

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.”

People Ifs Way Want Helping Shows Care Able Beautiful Black White Audience Mirrors Green Dance Don't Care I Don't Care Dancer Purple Black Or White

Author:Alvin Ailey

“Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.”

Shows Truth Jobs Happened Mirrors

Author:Walter Cronkite

“SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.”

Helping Shows Differences Perspective Mirrors Extraordinary

Author:Jill Tarter

“Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.”

Humans Kind Shows Wealth Worst Human Nature Mirrors

Book:The Sorrows of Satan

Source: The Sorrows of Satan

“What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.”

Shows Seems Form Levels Mirrors Everyday Musical Noble Servant Theme Contrast Realism Everyday Life Romanticism Crude Lyrical Scoundrels Crass

Book:A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Source: A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

“Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.”

Thinking Wells Character Shows Example Mirrors Mood Harsh Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden American Society Lead Characters

Author:Uwe Boll

“Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.”

Shows Behavior Empathy Mirrors Behaviour Criminal Mind Good Behavior Behavior And Attitude Criminal Behavior

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”

Men Shows Attitude Mirrors Manners Portraits Polite Being Polite Courtesy Manners

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.”

Ifs World Writing May Art Stills Use Shows Eye Care Turns Passion Greater Mankind Safe Accounts Mirrors Discrimination Imitation Wickedness Representing

Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]”

Shows Behavior Mirrors Manners

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe