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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Law

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.79, eKitap Projesi

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Glasses, People

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, School, Glasses

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• I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down the floor for hours. I use a magnifying glass to look at the beautiful shape of the thing.

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Running, Believe

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

  Julia Glass

  People, Giving, Perfect

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

  Fannie Flagg

  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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• Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Miracle, Important, Missionary

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Trying, Ease

  Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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• And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, Dresses, Becoming

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• The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

  Naomi Novik

  Simple, Glasses, Magic

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• Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

  Tony Hsieh

  Iphone, Glasses, Ipads

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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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• When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Dream, Glasses, Light

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• Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

  H. L. Richardson

  Sight, Mind, Facts

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• Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

  Thomas Browne

  Love, Glasses, Affection

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.115

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• Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Reality, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 24, 2013

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• A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.

  Oliver Harris

  Strong, Glasses, Editing

  Source: bigother.com

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• Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.

  Colin Wilson

  Mean, Glasses, Sight

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• Failure is life's magnifying glass.

  Simon May

  Glasses, Magnifying Glass

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• Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Glasses, Temptation, Shows

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2010). “Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit”, p.22, David C Cook

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

  Bill Engvall

  Mom, Stupid, Kids

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 29, 2013

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• I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memorial Day, Memories, Weekend

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Cat, Glasses, Guy

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2010

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• The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, People, Way

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352

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