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• Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.

  Tamora Pierce

  Glasses, Magic, Vision

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “The Will of the Empress”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

  Roland Barthes

  Drama, Wrestling, Light

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Ambition, Men

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Soul

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

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• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

  Bill McKibben

  Time, Shopping, August

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• It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Thinking, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

  Mark Twain

  Age, May, Firsts

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• But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

  C. S. Lewis

  School, Mean, Other Worlds

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• He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.

  Jim Butcher

  Looks, Might, Said

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.107, Penguin

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• One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

  James M. Barrie

  Pirate, Weapons, Killing

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.44, 谷月社

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• Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

  Robert Greene

  Marketing, Niche, Reaching

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, People, Friendly

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.87

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• A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

  Kate Chopin

  Earth

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.172

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• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

  James Jeans

  Nature, Science, Men

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Philosophy, Reality, Dust

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.3, University Press of Kentucky

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• There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.

  Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  Eye, Color, Two

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• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Views, Perspective

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.

  Augustus William Hare

  Book, Men, Hieroglyphics

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• Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

  John Dryden

  Book, Inward, Found

  1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

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• it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Believe, Light

  Frank O'Hara (1965). “Love Poems (tentative Title)”

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• She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.

  Tessa Dare

  Past, Imperfect Person, Events

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• After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Death, Animal

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.224

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• I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moon, Thinking, Worry

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