"Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell."
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"All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications."
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"Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?"
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"Mankind is a dream of a shadow."
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"Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow."
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"Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow."
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"Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things."
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"The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body."
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"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."
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"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."
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"Art is a shadow of Divine perfection."
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"Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things."
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"As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf."
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"Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow."
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"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
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"There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space."
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"Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing."
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"My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent."
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