"The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector."
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"Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy."
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"America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path..."
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"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her."
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"Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
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"They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light."
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"The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light."
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"I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on."
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"In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."
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"I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light."
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"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency."
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"There is light somewhere."
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"There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't."
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"I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required."
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"I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death."
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"The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient."
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"Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb."
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"Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live."
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"Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing."
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