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• I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.

  Sherwood Smith

  Eye, Men, Feelings

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• Indeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however, I was already searching for light - for my source. Yet despite my preternatural kinship with that spark that lights this and all worlds, for the first two or three decades of my life, I resisted it.

  Rod Stryker

  Light, Names, Two

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• The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

  David Batstone

  Journey, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

  Sean Penn

  Regret, War, Drug

  Source: hotair.com

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• There are the great people who have grown and loved me, like Katy [Perry] - who started as a fan and told me that one day she hoped I would dress her, and asked for a picture with me at a fan meet and greet. Now she's became one of the world's most important pop stars. I've supported her since the beginning, out of believing in a spark in her and giving her a chance because she was a girl who obviously seemed very passionate about what I am doing.

  Jeremy Scott

  Girl, Stars, Believe

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Knowing, Rose, Joy

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

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• You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

  Rachel Vincent

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.232, Harlequin

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• Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

  DJ Shadow

  Eight, Years, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Light, Darkness, Way

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new supply of red notebooks in there, and you want us to fill them in with clues about the works of, say, Nicholas Sparks." "Who?" I asked. Please, no more broody poets. I couldn't keep up. "You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said.

  Rachel Cohn

  Notebook, Thinking, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.230, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.

  Margaret Cho

  Night, Going Out, Splits

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.

  Hudson Mohawke

  Nice, Ideas, The End Of The Day

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Wise, Wisdom, Humanity

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Stewart Vogel (1999). “The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life”, p.69, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• "Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Men, Suffering, Able

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 239), 1986.

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, Humanity, Weapons

  Speech in Birmingham, England encouraging civil disobedience in support of nuclear disarmament, April 15, 1961.

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• The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Country, Dark

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• If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Powerful, War, Race

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

  David Brewster

  Moon, Men, Sky

  David Brewster (1854). “More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian”, p.11

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• Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Dust, Hell

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Valentines Day, Confused

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Blow, Imagination

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• Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

  Bob Lutz

  School, Competition, Innovation

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• Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Happiness, Teacher, Laughter

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• I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

  Tori Amos

  Mean Girls, Ice, Feet

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