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• This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Eye, Science, Discovery

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• To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Change, Time, Truth

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• When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

  Chauncey Depew

  Dream, Home, Science

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Hard Work, Home

  George W. Bush's speech at a Naturalization Ceremony at the DAR Administration Building in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 27, 2006.

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• I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, United States, Measurement

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

  Robert Browning

  Light, Bosoms, Conscience

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

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• In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Kings, Military

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• My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

  Ana Tzarev

  Dream, Art, Flower

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• I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

  David Klass

  Hope, Quiet, Mental Power

  David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

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• America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  America, Growth, World

  Source: www.politico.com

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• This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

  Barack Obama

  America, World, Pillars

  "Report: Obama Holds First News Conference Since Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2016.

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• When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life.

  George Harrison

  Doors, Firsts, Krishna

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• The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Winning, Keys

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth;
  To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance;
  To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners;
  To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer.
  Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie;
  Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Ignorance, Rainbow

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• America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

  Jim Edgar

  America, People, World

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• And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

  Gerald Massey

  Stars, Dark, Jewels

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14

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• Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his league but he inspires me because he's not interested in playing himself; he's only interested in playing other people and the whole thing is like an adventure for him, it seems to me. It's some kind of spiritual exploration, which is an amazing, noble thing.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Spiritual, Adventure, People

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Children, Integrity

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• The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Rocks, Warning, Vices

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• We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.

  Brian Cox

  Home, Surface, Planets

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• There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, People, Liberty

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.167, City Lights Publishers

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• Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

  Martin O'Malley

  Home, Evil, Stronger

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Past, Light, Despair

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.55, Random House

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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