 God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. Author: Adam Ferguson
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| So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. Author: Adam Schiff
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| This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. Author: Adolf Galland
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| Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. Author: Aeschylus
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| The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology. Author: Agnes E. Meyer
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| When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Author: Akhenaton
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| Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? Author: Al Boliska
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| We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. Author: Al Gore
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| I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling. Author: Al Lopez
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| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. Author: Alan Alda
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| Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. Author: Alan Cohen
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| You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. Author: Alan Cohen
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| Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. Author: Alan Dundes
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| Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. Author: Alan Dundes
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| I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. Author: Alan Parsons
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| Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on. Author: Alan Shepard
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| The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. Author: Alan Shepard
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| Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Author: Alan Shepard
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| You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do. Author: Alan Shepard
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| About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load. Author: Alan Thicke
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| If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. Author: Alan Thicke
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| Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Author: Albert Camus
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| Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894. Author: Albert Claude
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| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Author: Albert Einstein
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| Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Author: Albert Einstein
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| The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Author: Albert Einstein
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| There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head. Author: Albert Finney
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| Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows. Author: Albert Maltz
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| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. Author: Albert Pike
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| We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. Author: Albert Pike
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| An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. Author: Alec Waugh
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| I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for? Author: Alex Rodriguez
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| It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. Author: Alexander Haig
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| The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. Author: Alexander Haig
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| Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Author: Alexander Pope
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| Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Author: Alexander Smith
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| There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness. Author: Alexander Volkov
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| Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Author: Alexis Carrel
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| The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct. Author: Alfre Woodard
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| We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. Author: Alfred Kastler
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| Wherever there is light, one can photograph. Author: Alfred Stieglitz
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| We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it. Author: Alice Cooper
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| If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Author: Alice Duer Miller
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| Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. Author: Alison Bechdel
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| Education is the movement from darkness to light. Author: Allan Bloom
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| You can disguise any set with lights and shadows. Author: Allan Dwan
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| Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. Author: Allen Ginsberg
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| When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it. Author: Allen Klein
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| Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. Author: Allen Klein
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| Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it. Author: Allen Klein
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| Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence. Author: Alphonsus Liguori
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| Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him. Author: Alphonsus Liguori
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| It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. Author: Amartya Sen
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| Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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| Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. Author: Amos Oz
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| I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. Author: Amy Tan
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| People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. Author: Andie MacDowell
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| The substance of painting is light. Author: Andre Derain
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| Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years. Author: Andreas Katsulas
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| So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear. Author: Andreas Katsulas
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| Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. Author: Andres Segovia
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| Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. Author: Andrew Cohen
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| Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way. Author: Andrew Eldritch
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| Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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| Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. Author: Andrew Motion
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| I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. Author: Andrew Taylor Still
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| I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. Author: Ang Lee
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| Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. Author: Anita Diament
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| I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home. Author: Anita Loos
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| While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security. Author: Ann Coulter
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| The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| One does not re-light a dead cigarette. Author: Anna Held
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| But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. Author: Anna Neagle
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| When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Author: Anna Pavlova
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| A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Author: Anne Bronte
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| His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. Author: Anne Bronte
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| She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. Author: Anne Bronte
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| I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not. Author: Anne Heche
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| As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. Author: Anne Hutchinson
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| For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! Author: Anne Sullivan
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| Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. Author: Anne Sullivan Macy
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