"Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds."
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"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
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"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal."
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"It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you."
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"There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard."
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"For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway."
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"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin."
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"OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips."
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"I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper."
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"Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it."
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"My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it."
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"God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed."
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"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."
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"Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended."
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"At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place."
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"The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass."
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"Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . ."
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"Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas."
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"Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it."
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"I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card."
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