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• I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.

  Matt Groening

  Order, Ideas, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Innovation, Confusing

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Circles

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances.... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Men, Black, Use

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• A backward glance can often lift the heart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Lifts

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.33, Indiana University Press

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• Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Thinking, Guy, Periods

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.69, Wendy Lamb Books

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• the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

  Charles Bukowski

  World, Lasts, Caught

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• Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

  Gena Showalter

  Lunch, Firsts, Breakfast

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.136, Harlequin

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• Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

  Jessica Day George

  Princess, Eye, Blue

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  I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  Davy Crockett

  Eye, Men, World

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Form, Caught

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• In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

  Criss Jami

  Sitting Still, Order, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Obligation, Meetings

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• Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

  O. Henry

  Eye, Men, Comfort

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pain, Book, Eye

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• This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Men, Futility Of Life

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• Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Play

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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• How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Beautiful, Should Have, May

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.105

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• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lovers, Break, Scoundrels

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• There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Thinking, Skeletons

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Firsts

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• The angles even
  Draw strength from gazing on its glance,
  Though none its meaning fathom may;
  The world's unwither'd countenance
  Is bright as at creation's day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Sun, Gazing

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• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Spring, Moving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.410

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• There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, World, Mercury

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.86, 谷月社

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