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Light Quotes
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894."
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"If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light."
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"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold."
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"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."
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"I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them."
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"I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light."
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"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
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"I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light."
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"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."
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"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
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"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."
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"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light."
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"Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?It doesn't matter.We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world."
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"Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing."
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"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."
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"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."
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"Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light."
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"And since all things have been named light and night and things corresponding to their powers for each, everything is full alike of light and invisible night, both equal since nothing has a share in neither."
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"In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light."
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"A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.The end of all is hinted in the start.When we are born we bear the seeds of blight;Around us life & death are torn apart,Yet a great ring of pure and endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heart.It lights the world to my delight.Infinity is present in each part.A loving smile contains all art.The motes of starlight spark & dart.A grain of sand holds power & might.Infinity is present in each part,And a great ring of pure and endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heart."
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"Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!"
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"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
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"We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom."
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"Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day."
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"The greatest life is the joy of contentment."
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"God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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"Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone."
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"The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT."
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