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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy."

Men Light Voice
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Plato Philosopher
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"For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles."

Mind Light Oracles
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Barbara Jordan Politician, Lawyer
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"I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here lawfully. I, as chair of this commission, would not be a party to any system that I felt was an unpardonable intrusion into the private lives of people. If I felt that what we are recommending would be such an intrusion I can assure you that recommendation would never have seen the light of day, not even as a pilot program."

Light Party Rights
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"The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world."

Light Moon Our World
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done."

Light Wisdom Intelligent
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Emile Zola Novelist
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"Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice."

Light Justice Paris
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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact."

Book Light Fiction
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Euripides Playwright
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"Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom."

Light Air Dance
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"Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'"

Light Acting Bed
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today."

Jobs Light Photography
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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her."

Light Sky Loneliness
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy."

Reality Light Sky
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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need."

Light Philosophy Shining
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness."

People Light Change
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