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• The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

  Alan Parsons

  Moon, Sides, Albums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

  Giordano Bruno

  Light, Space, Giving

  "Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe". Book by Martin J. Rees (p. 22), 2000.

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Scary, Fairy Tale, Classic

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• As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Change, Light, Interesting

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• You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

  Trevor Rabin

  Over You, Might, Theme

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• There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fairy Stories, Afterlife, People

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Rivers

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• What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

  Ryan Stiles

  Earth, Chess, Rooms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Giving, Be Kind

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

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• We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

  Emanuel Celler

  Party, Character, Fighting

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• And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Earth, Said, Has Beens

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Truth, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.416, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dwelling, Catholic

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• I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Determination, Sleep, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Country, Great Day

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

  Black Kettle

  War, Clouds, Sky

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• Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

  Suze Orman

  Light, People, Finance

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• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Running, Winning, Race

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatness, Light, Crow

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2009

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• It was a dark and stormy night.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Night, Snoopy, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz

  Night, Snoopy, Wrinkle In Time

  Charles M. Schulz (2015). “Peanuts Movie Novelization”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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