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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories"

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."

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Malala Yousafzai Activist, Author
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"We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society."

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Jack Campbell Author
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"He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval."

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Jack Gould Journalist
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"It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night."

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Hannah Flagg Gould Poet, Author
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"The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes!"

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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer
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"And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be."

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Ovid Poet
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"Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day."

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