"You are the instrument of your own illumination." — Vivian Gornick

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• History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
• You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design… — John Adams
• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from… — Annie Besant
• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I… — Jacqueline Bisset
• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper… — Jacob Bronowski
• We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth… — Bill Bryson
• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding… — Thomas Aquinas
• It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on… — Charles Darwin
• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive… — Thomas Adams
• Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the… — David A. Bednar
• Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon… — Gregory Palamas

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