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If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ...

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As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in ...

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There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't d...

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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation...

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Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...

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Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the...

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Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift...

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You are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the l...

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Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally...

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God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big ...

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Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some ...

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He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that h...

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More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, ...

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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the soul...

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Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the...

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In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

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Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Dar...

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When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and...

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No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard t...

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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

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Denis DiderotThoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of Love

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of...

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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in th...

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Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ...

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Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, d...

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The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not t...

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play some...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forg...

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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldie...

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I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the c...

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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthous...

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Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

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E. F. BensonThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav...

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There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. ...

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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

I turn away reluctant from your light,And stand irresolute, a mind undone,A silly, dazzled thing dep...

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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached u...

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...

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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the da...

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Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it i...

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A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the...

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I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something r...

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light ...

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The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspe...

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....

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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...

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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...

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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...

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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark stre...

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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...

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Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...

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Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through...

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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint y...

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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by li...

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are b...

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I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, aga...

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Frederick BuechnerSecrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, t...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize th...

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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. W...

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The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the nig...

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These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from...

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The light that brings the dawn.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

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I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, t...

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Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from th...

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined....

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Voyages IIIInfinite consanguinity it bears This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea ...

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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want...

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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

On the edge of a tropical ocean, in a thousand reflections of the silver light of an invisible moon,...

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Ther...

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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...

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He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It wa...

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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote fr...

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