Quotes with light

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Victor Hugo To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Walt Whitman To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carole King Tonight You're mine completely,
    You give your love so sweetly
    Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
    But will you love me tomorrow?
    Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1961)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Lady Randolph Churchill Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
    Lady Randolph Churchill
    American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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  • William Shakespeare Trifles, light as air; are to the jealous confirmations strong; as proofs of the holy writ.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Richard Whately Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Herbert Spencer Virtue gives herself light through darkness for to wade.
    The Faerie Queene (1590) 1, 12
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Bruce Lee Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bob Schaffer Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Mark Twain Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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