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• I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Glasses, President

  Interview with Juan Williams, www.npr.org. January 29, 2007.

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing

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• Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Reflection, Puddles

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
  it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
  and the ultimate grand design of creation.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Design, Path

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• That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.

  David Wroblewski

  Letting Go, Daughter, Baby

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• Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Divine Beauty, Clay

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• I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Father, Government

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wedding, Dark, Mirrors

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• The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Mind, Stopping

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Issues, People

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Games

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• I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

  Robert Smith

  Important, Cures

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspiration, Mirrors, Effort

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.114, Penguin

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• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  Francis Chan

  Art, Creativity, Diversity

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.18, David C Cook

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• Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.

  David Malouf

  Art, Spring, Mean

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.60, Random House

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  Louis Sachar

  Baby, Strong, Angel

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Holes”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Years, Reflecting Back, People

  Jeffery Deaver (2008). “The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reflection, Different, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.242, Stanford University Press

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