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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past." »Unknown
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"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height." »Buddha
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"MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's." »Doug Ferrari
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"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa
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"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." »Mother Theresa
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"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Death is not extinguishing the light
It is simply putting out the lamp
Because the dawn has come" »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." »Christopher Hampton
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"No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are." »Banani Ray
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"I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights." »Oscar Levant
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"He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes." »Siddha Nagarjuna
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"As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The old pool shooter had won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing to the floor. 'Sorry,' he said with a smile." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?" »The Hitopadesa
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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 on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness." »Hannah More
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"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
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"Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all." »Casino
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"I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp." »Ingrid Weir
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"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett
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"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings." »Homer
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"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings." »Homer, The Iliad
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"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights" »Warren Gamaliel Harding
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"Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in." »Coming to America
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"Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before." »Shel Silverstein
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one" »Richard M. Devos
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"" »Richard M. DeVos
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"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children." »Brian Sutton-Smith
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