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• The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

  Gideon Welles

  War, Heart, Errors

  Gideon Welles (2014). “Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)”, p.472, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  Amy Lowell

  Romantic, Firefly, Dark

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

  Michael Jackson

  Future, Planets, Brighter Days

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• The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

  Ryan Bingham

  Stars, Light, Up In The Air

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• I think the future for young chefs is much brighter than it was 40 years ago. Because people have become so much more interested in food. That will not stop. We cannot go back now. We cannot go back to frozen.

  Andre Soltner

  Thinking, Years, People

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Technology, Accepted, Strive

  "The Future As History". Book by obert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41, 1960.

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• Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.

  Will Smith

  Writing, Hands, Names

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

  Will Smith

  People, Joy, Care

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.

  James Elkins

  Eye, Dark, Moon

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.

  Jack Tretton

  Team, Passion, Commitment

  "Jack Tretton To Step Down As President And CEO Of Sony Computer Entertainment America". Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., www.prnewswire.com. March 06, 2014.

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• Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

  Jonathan Swift

  Shining, Fiction, Poet

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.430

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dust, Jewels, Sea

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.11, Penguin

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• The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, Crow, East

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• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dream, Sleep, Angel

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Country, Hero

  William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Wall, Sky

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• If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stars, Editing, Worry

  "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Essay by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Would Be, Vote, Shots

  "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation". BBC Radio 4, September 13, 2004.

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• Conversion will not be a single event or something that will last for just one season of life but will be a continuing process. Life can become brighter until the perfect day, when we will see the Savior and find that we have become like Him. The Lord described the journey this way: ‘That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day’ (D&C 50:24).

  Henry B. Eyring

  Journey, Light, Perfect Days

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Compassion, Dedication

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• There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.

  P. T. Barnum

  Art, Laughter, Children

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• Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Dragons, Eagles

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• Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

  George Q. Cannon

  Strong, Children, Healthy

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

  Vance Havner

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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