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• If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Despair, Pits

  "Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

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• We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

  George Pataki

  Dream, Home, People

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• Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Love Is, Fire

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• It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

  Little Richard

  Way, Poverty, Brighter Days

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• The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

  Gideon Welles

  War, Heart, Errors

  Gideon Welles (2014). “Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)”, p.472, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Optimism

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Growth

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  Amy Lowell

  Romantic, Firefly, Dark

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

  Ouida

  Littles, Scandal, Tongue

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218

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• Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

  Shaggy

  Sorrow, Needs, Impossible

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• Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Risk, Stopping

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• When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

  Andy Murray

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

  Kevin Whately

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Want

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• Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

  David Limbaugh

  Commitment, America, Optimism

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• The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.

  Frank Zappa

  Romantic, Heart, Flames

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Stars, Queens

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

  Bob Seger

  Inspirational, Light, Hands

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

  Michael Jackson

  Future, Planets, Brighter Days

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• The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, Crow, East

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• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dream, Sleep, Angel

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Country, Hero

  William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Wall, Sky

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