“ The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering colophon of charm. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
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“ So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ”
- Monica Baldwin- Copy
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“ A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ I had to find a new twist. I wanted a balloon 60 inches in diameter, which is my height, made of a translucent or transparent material. ”
- Sally Rand- Copy
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“ The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. ”
- John Tillotson- Copy
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“ Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Because of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The world has witnessed shameful acts committed by people who represent the United States in Iraq. Now America must show the world how the United States of America exercises the true principles of democracy - upholding the rule of law by administering justice in a swift, transparent and fair manner. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
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“ All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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