"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."
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"To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him."
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"I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out."
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"Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun."
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"Everyone's light turns on at their own time."
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"How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?"
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"As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."
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"There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands."
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"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
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"It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold."
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"What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?"
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"Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist."
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"since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light"
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"...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner."
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"The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies."
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"The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools."
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"People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff."
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"God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him."
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"The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad."
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"Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark."
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