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• Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

  Robert Plant

  World, Be Good, Rounds

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, School

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Long, Gone, Endless

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1966). “Swans on an Autumn River: Stories”

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• The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Brave, Balls

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Lying, Thinking

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Long, Sparkle, Champagne

  Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

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• Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

  Ruslana Korshunova

  Love Is, Desire, Sun

  "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.

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• If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Truth, Doors, Giving

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• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Self, Brain, Doe

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Live Life, Forever, Victim

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

  Stephen Merchant

  Years, People, Car

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2006.

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• All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Lightning

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• Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

  Marcel Proust

  Mistake, Heart, Eye

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove”, Vintage Classics

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• Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

  Anne Sexton

  Morning, Lamps, Daylight

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

  Alan Watts

  Wave Of Life, Light, Forever

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Moving, Clouds, Cities

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Mean, Past

  "On the Concept of History" (1940) See Ranke 1

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• The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Eye, Blue, Names

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

  Arthur Lynch

  Light, Hands, Essence

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Life is the flash in black heavens.

  Henri Cazalis

  Life, Heaven, Black

  Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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