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• Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Order, Sculpture

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

  Anne Carson

  People, Soul, Stories

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

  Arthur Koestler

  Giving, Intuition, Links

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• The situation of women living in Islam-stricken
  societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage
  of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women
  and girls, beheadings, stoning to death,
  floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of
  marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most
  brutal and visible aspects of women's
  rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East

  Maryam Namazie

  Girl, Children, Islamic

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• When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kids, Journey, Self

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• Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Stupidity

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• Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

  Erwin McManus

  Creative, Invisible

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• Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Way, Invisible

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Kings, Italian, Blue

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

  Gustave Moreau

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

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• Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Trying, Example

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• Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Agony, Uniforms

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• Your kindness cannot be said.
  You open doors in the sky.
  You ease the heart and make
  God's qualities visible.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Heart, Doors

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• Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

  Carl Jung

  Darkness, Vision, Enlightenment

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• It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Intimate Relationships, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.34, Discovery House

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• The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy

  Alberto Villoldo

  Believe, Energy, Doe

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Shaman, Healer, Sage”, p.71, Random House

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• The return of Jesus will be personal, physical, visible and glorious.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Return, Glorious

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

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• If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Math, People, Alive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

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• He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Running, Figures

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Crush, Evil, Misery

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.291

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• How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Queens, Night

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• Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.

  John G. Bennett

  Light, Order, Perspective

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• By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

  William Penn

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.11

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• Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Environmental, Buttons, Doe

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