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• Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!

  Robert Montgomery

  Fall, Clouds, Echoes

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

  Sukarno

  Brother, Fire, Flames

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• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Clever, Hard Work

  Interview on September 20, 1988. Included in "Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5" DVD No. 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five/A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry",

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• The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

  James L. Brooks

  Writing, Omnipotence, Feelings

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

  Gu Cheng

  Art, Feelings, Cameras

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• For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

  Primo Levi

  Spring, Science, Law

  "The Periodic Table". Book by Primo Levi, 1975.

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• The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

  John Lyly

  Lightning, Moments, Ends

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.55, Manchester University Press

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• There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Animal, Light

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”

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• It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
  The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
  The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
  A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
  Autumn leaves and rain,
  The passion of the gale.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Passion, Autumn

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3781, Delphi Classics

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• The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.

  Tim Ward

  Practice, Ideas, People

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• Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blue, Weather, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.19

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• Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

  Willem de Kooning

  Encounters, Glimpse, Tiny

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.74, Taschen

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• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Daughter, Objects, Items

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Clouds

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• I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

  Debby Ryan

  Years, Acting, Want

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• As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

  Huineng

  Ignorance, Years, Darkness

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Should, Plugs

  OpenBSD mailing list, Subject: "Re: Real men don't attack straw men", marc.info. December 14, 2007.

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• My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs for two potential online versions of The Sims 4 (The Sims Olympus and The Sims Icarus).

  Patrick Kelly

  Games, Play, Two

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