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• The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Country, Japan

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• For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Regret, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.14, Atlântico Press

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• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

  Bruce Catton

  Sunset, Eye, Sky

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Color, Ideas

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• I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sitting, Neon, Loser

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stars, Hard Times, Keys

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

  Kelly Miller

  War, Patriotic, America

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

  John Milton

  Light, Rooms, Embers

  "Il Penseroso" l. 79 (1645)

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• How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

  Alexander Pope

  Guilt, Delight

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.110

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• Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

  David Richo

  Two, People, World

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Childhood, Sound, Littles

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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Romance, Together, World

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

  Max Muller

  Reflection, Reality, Fire

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

  Michael Berryman

  Home, Dark, Who Cares

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

  John Updike

  Sex, Males, Female

  "The Female Body". Michigan Quarterly Review, 1990.

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• The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Issues, Sound, Climate

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Iron, Perfect

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.57, Harper Collins

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Clouds, Light

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Beauty And Love

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Home, Heart

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• You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

  Tim Tebow

  Cutting, Bones, Feels

  Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (2011). “Through My Eyes”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

  Ken Mehlman

  War, Return, Generations

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• I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ocean, Humility

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