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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Chosen First Flight Circumstances
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Atheism Look System Solar
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Heavy Success Light Begin
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Chaos Europe Lights Nothing
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Dark Light Miracle Moment
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Behalf Caution Certain Errors
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity

ArExpression Glory Letters Light
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

People Light Dark Quickly
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Woe Evil Good Darkness
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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When you know and understand what God is saying, and walk in the light of it, you live in the realm of the miraculous.

Understand Walk Realm Know
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Smile Light Window That
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Limited Appreciation Intensed Scope
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Subdued Winter Grip Harder
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Feel Sad Anger Plight
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Attention Retire Win Command
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Woth Laughter Strength Abandon
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Dare Mighty Win Triumph
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The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.

Best People Front Love
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Because Darkness Endure Light
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Anon Ashes Desert Dusty
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Sometimes you meet people with very little knowledge, very humble jobs, and in no leadership role but they put you to shame with their good character and you can’t help but wonder if it’s that special connection that they have with God that causes them to tread the earth so lightly.

Knowledge Humble Leadership Character
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The layman is delighted to learn that after all, in spite of science being so impossibly difficult to understand, Scientists Are Human!

Layman Scientist Human Science
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Structure Piano Flight Stair
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Light Spaceship Speed Traveling
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Above Apartment Furious Live
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Candle Single World Extiguish
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Anarchy Hope Only Slight
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Although Among Impure Light
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Help Distress Lighten Own
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Wish Light Must Keep
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Most Offensive Their Lying
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I have a specialised racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

Special I Racing Bike
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Bred Buildings Character Environment
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Agree Carrying Intention Mean
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Asked Been Delights Give
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Delight How Refuge Take
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Light Many Share Task
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Admirable Enemies Eye Friends
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
After Light Rarely Sought
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Delight Fill Get Goal
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