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• Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unity, Enlightenment, Fields

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.42, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Dying

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Struggle, School

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

  Anthony of Padua

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Heart, Voice

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• Woe is me!
  The winged words on which my soul would pierce
  Into the heights of love's rare universe,
  Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
  I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Fire, Woe Is Me

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

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• ...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.

  William Crookes

  Beautiful, Nature, Heart

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1898.

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• I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.

  Robert Pattinson

  Couple, People, Effort

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• We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

  R. L. Hymers, Jr.

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.

  F.B. Meyer

  Inspiration, Grief, Believe

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• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  Manny Farber

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.517, Library of America

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• Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Knives, May, Sometimes

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• Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Grief, Ears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.541

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• Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Easy, Break

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.210

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• I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

  Van Morrison

  Men, Glamour, Let Me

  Van Morrison (2014). “Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics”, p.107, Faber & Faber

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• The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Mind, Criticism

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.64, Penguin

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• Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
  Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
  And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
  Thine individual being, shalt thou go
  To mix forever with the elements,
  To be a brother to the insensible rock
  And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
  Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
  Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Brother, Rocks

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Style, Franklin

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• For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

  William Penn

  Heart, Conscience

  George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fell (1839). “A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox”, p.19

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• We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Ignorance, Light

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• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Sitting, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ends, Figures, Thread

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• Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

  Soulja Boy

  New York, Artist, Men

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• The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

  Eric Maisel

  Reality, Void, Wonder

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.112, Penguin

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• I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Choices, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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