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• By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

  William Herschel

  Moon, Circus, Towns

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• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Fire, Personality, Style

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• At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

  May Sinclair

  Thrill, Quiet, Excitement

  May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”

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• Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Distance, Science

  SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1952). “MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS”

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Countenance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

  Charles Darwin

  Might, Facts, Made

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• The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mirrors, Color, Brilliant

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• Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.

  Hu Jintao

  Spiritual, Bridges, People

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• Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

  Geoff Rickly

  Mirrors, Culture, Goes On

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Reflection, Issues

  Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

  Willigis Jager

  Letting Go, Thinking, Feelings

  Willigis Jager (1994). “Contemplation: A Christian Path”, Triumph Books

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• Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Monsters, Fiction

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

  "Mandatory Sentences: Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing from the Perch of History". Interview with Andrew Santella, www.gq.com. January 15, 2014.

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• The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Mean, Knowing

  "The Golden Notebook (Free Women: 1)". Book by Doris Lessing, 1962.

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• Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

  Samuel Richardson

  Light, Mind, Overcoming

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.3

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• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  Stephen Spender

  Art, Loneliness, Mean

  "Life and the Poet". Book by Stephen Spender, 1942.

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Flower, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

  Harriet Lerner

  Jobs, Children, Reflecting Back

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• Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.

  Jo Baer

  Real, Reflection, Light

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• The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Heart, Turtles

  "The Annotated Alice". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction), 1960.

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• How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Party, Years, People

  Regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country, El Correo, (p. 23), April 9, 2005.

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But if I had my way, there would be so much more, in everything. It's so vital and integral in life, and it should be reflected in what we're watching, if we're reflecting our experiences. And it's hot. I love the sex stuff, and I want more.

  Jenji Kohan

  Sex, Way, Hot

  Source: collider.com

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• Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Dark, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

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• Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

  Nadya Suleman

  Father, Reflecting Back, Childhood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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