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"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine
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"Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul." »Pythagorus
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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." »Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
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"Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible." »Paul Klee
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"Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. light is more than watts and footcandles. light is metaphor. light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." »Robert Bresson
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"The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." »Ovid
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"Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Wilde
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo
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"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible." »Edward Teller
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"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have." »Henry C. Blinn
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"light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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." »Albert Schweitzer
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat." »Henny Youngman
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"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus
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"May you never know hunger
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes
May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free" »Shriekback, "Cradle Song"
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"And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'" »Minnie Haskins
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"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." »Lyndon Johnson
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"An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free." »William Bolitho
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"We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience." »John Claypool
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"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone." »Thomas De Quincey
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things." »Leonardo Da Vinci
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour." »Victor Hugo
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein
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