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"The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro."
"Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky."
"Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly."
"When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?"
"The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers."
"What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field."
"When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
"Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all"
"Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky."
"The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same."
"Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing and bellows so loudly, making a commotion down here among us, in a perfectly pedestrian way ... But the other one, the eternal one, is all around and above us, like a landscape that surrounds us and the blue sky that gives us light."
"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone."
"White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky."
"Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies."
"You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere"
"Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth."
"I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die."
"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon."
"British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization."
"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."
