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• But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

  Linda Lingle

  Past, Years, Two

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• Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Confused, Men, Temples

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• On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

  Alan Rickman

  Energy, Film

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Eye, Self, Ego

  "Ramadan is over, but the struggle goes on". www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2012.

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Sensual, Mind

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• And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Moving, Lighthouse, Moments

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.59, Broadview Press

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• To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thoughtful, Superficial Things, Fleeting

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 29, 1799.

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• If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

  Enid Bagnold

  God, Dog, Animal

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• I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Cat, Men

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & Lances”, New York : Harper

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• If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, History, Mind

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don’t be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That’s what I always say.

  Frank Beddor

  Stupid, Cat, Doubt

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• I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

  Sarah Dessen

  Passing By, Passings, Seeing

  Sarah Dessen (2007). “Just Listen”, p.372, Penguin UK

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Moon, Two

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• Glance is the enemy of vision.

  Ezra Pound

  Enemy, Vision

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• Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

  Edmund Husserl

  Inquiry, Consciousness, Apprehension

  Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge

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• There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Wise, Understanding, Faces

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.345, Penguin

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• To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

  Abraham Verghese

  Self Confidence, Seductive, Firsts

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Age, Ugly

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.89, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Letters, Kind

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

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• You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.

  Daniel Quinn

  Love, Dream, One Day

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• Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Flower, Blue, Violet

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1847). “Poems”, p.54

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