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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. – Georges Bataille	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. – Aaron Burr	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. – Truman Capote	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight. – Swedish Carol	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. – Jennie Jerome Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. – Dbjanski	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. – Maurice Druon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. – Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us. – Tom Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. – William Hiram Foulkes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is to give light must endure burning. – Dr. Viktor E Frankl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light – Maurice Freehill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. – Henry George	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened. – Newt Gingrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. – Arlo Guthrie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory. – William Hallman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. – Peter Hoeg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. – Eric Idle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. – Saint Adela Rogers Johns	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. – Carl Gustav Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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