"The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death."
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"I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish."
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"Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window."
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"Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is"
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"Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on."
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"It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films."
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"Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments."
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"Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things."
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"The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light."
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"Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight."
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"We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment."
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"He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me."
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"Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light."
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"Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted."
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"Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light."
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"Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning."
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"Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning"
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"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
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"The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness."
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"O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!"
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