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I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

Geronimo

May you never know hunger
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes

May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free

Shriekback, "Cradle Song"

That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ...

Carl Zwanzig

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
US suffragist (1815 - 1902)

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalier
French entertainer (1888 - 1972)

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...

Carl Zwanzig

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Graham Clarke

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Greek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC)

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus, Discourses
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

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