"The principal person in a picture is light." — Edouard Manet

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• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
• Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number… — Margaret Atwood
• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never… — Sri Aurobindo
• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded… — Irving Babbitt
• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you… — Richard Bach
• I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
• The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — Michele Bachmann

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