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• We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

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• Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Imagination, Judging

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland”, p.100

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Indulge In, People

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• Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Goal, Effort, May

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• It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

  Betty Smith

  Grieving, Light, Rivers

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Hands, Law

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Monsters, Telescopes

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.

  Wilbur Moorehead Smith

  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

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• If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

  John Piper

  Names, World, God Love

  John Piper (2002). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don’t like it. I don’t like to see everything I see. It’s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I’m not looking at her, I’m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.

  Julie Klausner

  Mirrors, Feels, Cameron

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• As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. ... Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Fire

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

  George Eliot

  Glasses, Magnifying Glass, Parentheses

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Fire, Glasses

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Emotional, Glasses, Giants

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• A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, People, Friendly

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.87

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• It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

  Harry Hill

  Funny, Nature, Glasses

  "Harry Hill". TV Series, 1997 - 2000.

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be "Al Qaeda Operative"". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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• In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Glasses, Play

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• Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

  Gore Verbinski

  Drama, Glasses, Lenses

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• [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Good Man, Secret

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• When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

  Neal Shusterman

  Heart, Reflection, Glasses

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• The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

  Bethany McLean

  Army, Two, Rivals

  Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera (2011). “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis”, p.189, Penguin

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