"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."

Cloud, Clouds, Prejudice, Reason, Sun

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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."

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"I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood."

Renee Zellweger, American Actress

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"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

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"All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it."

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."

Benoit Mandelbrot, French Mathematician

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"I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices."

Black Elk, American Leader

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"Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region."

Antony Hewish, British Scientist

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"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

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"Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently."

Michael Servetus, Spanish Scientist

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"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon."

Religion

"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

Detail

"G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati."

Knowledge

"Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind."

History

"Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery."

Men

"But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents."

Government

"It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."

Nature

"The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men."

Men

"Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish."

Purpose

"The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind."

Family