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Illuminate the opposition. -- Adam Weishaupt
Illuminate the wonderful light within you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom -- Kid Cudi
You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary. -- Bankei Yotaku
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. -- Emil Nolde
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. -- Harvey Fierstein
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. -- James Buchan
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. -- Ambrose Bierce
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. -- Claire Messud
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. -- Francis Ford Coppola
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. -- James A. Baldwin
I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. -- Will Smith
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition. -- Richard Dawkins
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do. -- Robert Harris
Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly. -- Candice Olson
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. -- Francis Ford Coppola
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here. -- Mandy Patinkin
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? -- Rick Perlstein
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone. -- Charles M. Blow
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless. -- Jackson Katz
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -- Gore Vidal
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all. -- Huston Smith
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. -- Paul Rand
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece. -- Christopher Moore
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. -- David Maraniss
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. -- Alan Moore
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud. -- Mitchell Zuckoff
May God brighten your path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows. -- Jarod Kintz
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? -- Jorge Luis Borges
Those who cannot illuminate even a gloomy street often talk about illuminating the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us be a messenger of peace and illuminate the world with the lights of our love. -- Debasish Mridha
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products. -- Steven Magee
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. -- Oprah Winfrey
There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip. -- T.F. Hodge
Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
When we let ourselves shine, we eclipse the realms of ordinary. This light, this spiritual life-force, effortlessly radiates within us and to those around us, illuminating the potentiality of our soul's yearning--which is, in essence--the highest version of ourselves. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet. -- Adi Alsaid
We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say I am the source of light. God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us. -- Israelmore Ayivor
In the beginningwhen ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out. -- Toba Beta
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees. -- Brandon Sanderson
OPEN UP THE BLINDOpen the blinds that cover their eyesTurn on the lights inside their mindsPut all judgments and rumors asideAnd instead,Put Truth and Justice At both your sides.Leave the egos and drama all behind.Persevere and be patient in all your strides.And in timeWE WILL WIN.Truth always wins with Time. -- Suzy Kassem
Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selvesof the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most. -- Emily Thorne
The light must illuminate. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Better to illuminate, than merely to shine. -- Thomas Aquinas
May the light of love illuminate your path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May God illuminate your path with great favours -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You have a great light to illuminate the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The light in your soul can illuminate any darkness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world. -- Enos Mills
When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you. -- Leonard Jacobson
If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does. -- Cheryl Richardson
You are a beautiful and wonderful soul. Recognise and illuminate it. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon,illuminate the shadows in the sky. -- A.F. Stewart
You're the way, you are the light. Let's go to illuminate the world. -- Debasish Mridha
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. -- Isabel Allende
I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre. -- Jordana Brewster
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. -- bell hooks
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate. -- David Doubilet
To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves. -- Arianna Huffington
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He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. -- Richard Brautigan
If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society -- Sakyong Mipham
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... -- Mooji
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. -- C. V. Wedgwood
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth. -- Will Smith
Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you. -- Lady Gaga
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft -- Nido R Qubein
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... -- Gore Vidal
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives. -- Edward Higgins White
Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it. -- Dan B. Allender
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards. -- Pollyanna Darling
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. -- Charles M. Blow
Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high. -- Richard G. Scott
There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, -- Langston Hughes
You are the light in the heart of the universe, to illuminate the world spread the light of your love. -- Debasish Mridha
It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present. -- Farley Mowat
I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants. -- Jarod Kintz
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
You are a candle in darkness and love is your light, so illuminate the world with the light of your love. -- Debasish Mridha
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. -- Nicholas Meyer
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. -- Raquel Cepeda
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. -- Jimmy Buffett
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see. -- Paulo Coelho
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. -- Milan Kundera
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives. -- Anna Quindlen
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! -- Bryant H. McGill
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! -- Bryant H. McGill
Moon reveals it's beauty in darkness to illuminate the world with the light of love. When humanity suffers, let us be like the moon. -- Debasish Mridha
If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. -- Werner Herzog
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. -- W. Eugene Smith
Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. -- Gene Wilder
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. -- Peter Abelard
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice. -- Maya Angelou
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller. -- William Trevor
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. -- Leo Tolstoy
...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated. -- Dave Barry
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts. -- Martha Beck
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. -- Walter Jon Williams
Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. -- Dogen
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it. -- Frank Moore Cross
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God. -- Charles Fox Parham
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present. -- Emory Douglas

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