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• Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

  Naomi Wolf

  Cutting, Space, Roles

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• Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

  Donna Mills

  Dark, Color, Seductive

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• A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Democracy, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

  Terence McKenna

  Eye, Darkness, Bonfire

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• For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!

  Summer Sanders

  Workout, Hard Work, Add

  "HuffPost Workouts: Summer Sanders’ Workout Playlist" by Summer Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.

  James Boswell

  Character, Men, Drawing

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• Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

  David Elkind

  Children, Grandparent, Temptation

  David Elkind (1999). “La educacion erronea. Ninos preescolares en peligro”, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA

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• Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

  George Q. Cannon

  Strong, Children, Healthy

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• Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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• We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

  Andre Derain

  Color, Sun, Speak

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• Christmas hath a darkness;
  Brighter than the blazing noon;
  Christmas hath a chillness
  Warmer than the heat of June,
  Christmas hath a beauty
  Lovelier than the world can show:
  For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
  Brought for us so low

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Jesus, June

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.

  Justin Cronin

  Memories, Book, Dark

  Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.41, Ballantine Books

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• The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Jeans, Guy

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• I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dog, Shade, Hours

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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• The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

  Terry Pratchett

  Singing

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• The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Women, Night, Gone

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.293, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?” “Everyone wants to be loved.” “I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Brother, Love Is

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1362, Bantam

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• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

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• The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

  Laini Taylor

  Memories, Worst Moments, Joy

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• Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?

  Richelle Mead

  Why Not, Auras, Sun

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.240, Penguin

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• The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Morning, Heart, Acceptance

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• we're anything brighter than even the sun

  e. e. cummings

  Sun

  E. E. Cummings (1983). “Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Eden, Rose

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