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• A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Science, Years

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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are different gradations of kundalini. Some gradations of kundalini are darker, some are lighter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Different

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• Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Depressing, Clever, Mean

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

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• Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doctors, Wife

  "The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays".

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• One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Race

  Letter to "Weird Tales" editor Edwin Baird, printed in "Weird Tales" 3, no. 3 (March 1924); Quoted in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 122), 2000.

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• When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

  Colin Firth

  Book, Different, World

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• A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Passion, Learning

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• I don't think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Accomplish

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

  Mike Jackson

  Technology, World

  Source: deadline.com

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• When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with it’s path high above, and it’s two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of a gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  Hayley Williams

  Beautiful, Men, Two

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• ...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Voice, Giving

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.172, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Prism! Where is that baby?

  Oscar Wilde

  Baby

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.534, OUP Oxford

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• Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Emotion

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• Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Stories

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

  Andy Daly

  Real, Silly, Feelings

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Military, Campaigns, Friction

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• Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Moving, Fire

  Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan (1999). “Carl Sagan: a life”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Girl, Light, Color

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

  Daniel Horan

  People, Police, Television

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• Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

  Terry Brooks

  Princess, Cat, Dark

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• I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Father, Funeral, Remember

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

  Tony Abbott

  Cities, Looks, Noble

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

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• If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.

  Jon Stewart

  Perspective, People, Interesting

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Winning, Iowa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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