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“Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.”

Years Light Wanted Courses Given Building Surprise Engineers Soar Headache

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.”

Needs Believe Light Earth Used Night Given Nature Masters Illusion Terror Domain Primal Good Night Night Light

Book:Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

Source: Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

“The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.”

Light Spirit Given Christ Holy Holy Spirit Revelations Testament New Testament Old Testament Commentary

Author:Gary North

“Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.”

Light Eye Universe Given Darkness Ignorance Salvation Superstitions Vastness

Book:My Beliefs

Source: My Beliefs

“Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.”

Light Given Highest

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.”

Light Might Fighting Strong Given Heaven Causes Strength Conflict Weapons And Love Truth And Love

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!”

Knows Humans Littles Soul Light Given Answers Sacred Affection Reverence Anguish Human Soul Pleading

Book:Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.”

Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories

“Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.”

Facts Light Universe Given Social Accepting Possibility Theory Structure Finals Refuse Analysis Denied Abstraction Arrested Validation Transcending Social Theory

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being its theory intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative.”

Firsts States Facts Light Given Practice Conditions Theory Ought Negative Structure Critical Recognition Tension Denied Concrete

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.”

Ifs Feels Light Given Creativity Sun Creative Grace Mystery Unexpected Deserving

Author:P. L. Travers

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.”

Art Made Light Eye Faces Given Sides Grace Air Hair Curious Made It Seats Touched Shade Organs Hung Brightness Ivory

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.”

Littles Light Faith Given Felt Space Known Steps Darkness Courage Areas Familiar

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?”

Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878

“The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.”

“I gaze upon the thousand stars That fill the midnight sky; And wish, so passionately wish, A light like theirs on high. I have such eagerness of hope To benefit my kind; I feel as if immortal power Were given to my mind.”

Ifs Feels Mind Kind Light Given Wish Stars Sky Thousand Benefits Enthusiasm Immortal Midnight Night Sky Eagerness

Author:Margaret Landon

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

People Light Given Creative Growing Up Growing Doors England Green Publishers Banging Green Lights

Author:Nick Bantock

“When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.”

Knows Heart May Soul Light Earth Lasts Individual Given Realizing Darkness Like You Sorrow Fearless Light And Darkness Light And Dark

Author:Guy Finley

“The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.”

Light Form Fall Given Dark Results Quality Darkness Areas Locals Tone Affected Inherent Lightness Light And Dark

Author:Nathan Goldstein

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy