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• There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Animal, Light

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

  John Lyly

  Lightning, Moments, Ends

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.55, Manchester University Press

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• For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

  Primo Levi

  Spring, Science, Law

  "The Periodic Table". Book by Primo Levi, 1975.

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Movie, Girl

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• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

  Gu Cheng

  Art, Feelings, Cameras

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

  James L. Brooks

  Writing, Omnipotence, Feelings

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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• I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

  Sukarno

  Brother, Fire, Flames

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

  Bruce Davison

  Memories, Hate, Flash Gordon

  "Bruce Davison Is President Wilson in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 6, 2010.

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• In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

  Rodney Crowell

  Art, Children, Media

  Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Roots, Growth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

  Kevin Garnett

  Simple, Glamour, Glitz

  "Sunday Conversation: Kevin Garnett". Interview with Stephen A. Smith, www.espn.com. May 10, 200.

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• When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.

  Ali Landry

  Sweat, Hot Flashes, Saws

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• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Mean, Daddy, People

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  Ali Smith

  Character, Past, Rolling Along

  "Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age" by James Gleick, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2017.

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• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

  Hedi Slimane

  Hands, Ipads, Needs

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• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  K. D. Lang

  People, Musical, Taste

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• For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Quality, Energy

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