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• By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.

  Ralph Steiner

  Heart

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• Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Years, Together

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

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• There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. 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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• Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
  When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
  So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
  But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

  Ovid

  Clouds, Shadow, Gone

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• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

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• Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Moments, Passing

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2008). “The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak's Writings on Inspiration and Creation”, p.162, Academic Studies PRess

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• Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

  John Berger

  Reality, Order, Play

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.480, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

  Dean Potter

  Wings, Shadow, Lines

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• In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Writing, Years, Work Out

  "A History of Classical Physics: From Antiquity to the Quantum". Book by John Desmond Bernal, p. 116, 1997.

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• As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfection

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• I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

  Jose Marti

  Art, Grief, Rain

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.273, Penguin

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• Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Friendship, Sweet, Distance

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• Ray Comfort does it again! With simplicity and keen insight on the streets, he pulls back the curtain of Evolution and reveals that the Great Wizard of Darwinism is just an insecure little man with a dream of becoming a god. I highly recommend this helpful, faith-building, and inspiring video for families, teachers, and pastors!

  Kirk Cameron

  Dream, Teacher, Insecure

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• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

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• Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

  Taylor Hackford

  Way, Changed, American Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Fall, Window Panes, Two

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• Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

  Peter York

  Girl, Eye, Worry

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• In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

  Claude Nicollier

  Wavelength, Energy, Range

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• Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we say to Him: 'Thou are on a beautiful throne. It is we that have erected it for Thee. It is we that have opened the door of Thy prison and rent the cloud that hid Thee, O Sun of Love. Dart Thy rays now on every heart'

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Heart, Clouds

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• Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

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• Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Light, Environmental

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don't do that again.' But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.

  Jessica Alba

  Ice, Play, Guy

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