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“From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.”

Has Beens Said Body Light Fall White Sun Paper Colour Rays Evident Whiteness Unchangeable White Light

Book:Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

“We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.”

Way Firsts Science Fall Universe Mystery Fields Summer Gold Green Winter Forests Covered Flew Whiteness

Author:Anatoly Berezovoy

“People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.”

People Ifs Knows Pleasure Saws Doors Fronts Snow Witch Pioneers Blink Whiteness Front Doors Snowstorms

Author:Anne Ursu

“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.”

Ifs Believe Used Weapons Nuclear Supreme Folly Nuclear Weapons Whiteness Havoc

Book:The End of Imagination

Source: The End of Imagination

“Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.”

Doe Enough Choices Social Community White Greater Circumstances Diversity Accidents Welcome Social Life Whiteness Neighbourhoods

Book:Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

“Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.”

Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation

“We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?”

Ifs Knows Men Should Doe Stones Weight Function Neighbor Snow Whiteness

Book:Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [!

Source: Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [!

“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

Men World Soul Loses This World He Man Whiteness

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.”

Men Running Morning Shirts Whiteness

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks