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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. -- Theodor Adorno
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. -- John Coltrane
Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. -- David Sedaris
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight -- Moses Mendelssohn
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. -- Tony Hsieh
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. -- Alexander Pope
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. -- Anthony Jeselnik
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. -- David D. Burns
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -- Mitch Hedberg
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. -- Marquis de Sade
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible. -- Olivia Thirlby
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass. -- Oscar Nunez
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head -- Hermann Broch
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them. -- Jane Hirshfield
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. -- Taylor Swift
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination... -- Rudolf Arnheim
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. -- Tomas Transtromer
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. -- Montgomery Clift
Failure is life's magnifying glass. -- Simon May
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. -- Theodor Adorno
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. -- Charles Lindbergh
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. -- George Eliot
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. -- Moses Mendelssohn
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. -- Craig Stone
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear. -- Lily Cole
Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart. -- Mia Sheridan
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. -- Harry Hill
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. -- Gore Verbinski
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass. -- Nicholas A. Christakis

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