"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."

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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."

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"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away."

Marie Osmond, American Musician

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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

David K. Shipler, American Journalist

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"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

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"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."

Gene Hackman, American Actor

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"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

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"Tears are the noble language of the eye."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

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"Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"It's an ear job, not an eye job."

"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away."

"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."

"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."

"Tears are the noble language of the eye."

"Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."