Quotes with eye-opening

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  • Henry David Thoreau The eye is the jewel of the body.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Russell Lowell The eye is the notebook of the poet.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lydia M. Child The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Nadine Gordimer The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Judy Garland The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bobbi Brown The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Pliny the Elder The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bayard Taylor The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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