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• If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.

  Charles Hodge

  Errors, Evil, Forever

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.627

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• For most of us, there is only the unattended
  Moment, the moment in and out of time,
  The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
  The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
  Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
  That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
  While the music lasts

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Waterfalls, Lasts

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Clouds

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Block, Wine, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

  J. D. Salinger

  Numbers, Ignored, Flash

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Men, Clouds

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, One Day, Growing

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• God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  God, Lakes, Water

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• Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

  Todd Edwards

  Wells, Vocal

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• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Breathing, Way, Likes

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• Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dad, Laughter, Book

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• Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tongue, Madness, Should

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• She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

  Sara Sheridan

  Rain, Ocean, Grandmother

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• You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Bed, Too Much

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

  Susan Cheever

  Heart, Soul, Brain

  Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Ability, Tact, Feels

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

  Mark-Anthony Turnage

  Inspiration, Ideas, Forget

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

  Si Robertson

  Beard, Insult, Thunder

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

  John Yau

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

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• Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Moments, Fireworks

  "Ron Moore's 'Outlander' Sets Female Lead" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2013.

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