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• If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

  Sivananda

  Focus, Mind, Lenses

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

  Michael Dolan

  Nature, Ocean, Tree

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  Karel Capek

  Stars, Flames, Hands

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Stars, Moving, Long

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• You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

  A. D. Gordon

  Flower, Land, Roots

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• The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sweet, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Giving, Interesting

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 205), 1974.

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• We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as a wave through the aether can when it meets an atom collect up all its energy from all round and concentrate it on the atom. It is as if when a circular wave on water met an obstacle, the wave were all suddenly to travel round the circle and disappear all round and concentrate its energy on attacking the obstacle. Mechanically of course this is absurd, but mechanics have in this direction been for some time a broken reed.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Circles, Broken

  Henry Moseley's letter to Margery Moseley (February 2, 1913), as quoted in "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist 1887-1915" edited by J. L. Heilbron (p. 201), 1974.

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• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  Barry Sanders

  Offensive, Lineman, Brady

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• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

  Gale Sayers

  Player, People, Guy

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• Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

  Darius Rucker

  Beets, Biscuits, Bigs

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

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

  Sara Bareilles

  Artist, Apples, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  Daniel Clowes

  School, Kids, Example

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Gun, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

  Dianna Agron

  Upset, Important, Machines

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

  Joe Cocker

  Song, Able

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

  Billy Idol

  Fighting, Light, Dying

  Song: Don't Need a Gun, Album: Whiplash Smile, 1986

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• Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

  Jethro Tull

  Art, Gun, Media

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

  Humphry Davy

  Wisdom, Passion, Eye

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.26

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• There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Heaven, Religion

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