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• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

  Jack Welch

  Leader, Happens

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• Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.

  Dave Kerpen

  Party, Organization, Quality

  Dave Kerpen (2011). “Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Light, Crystals

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• "Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

  David Bianculli

  Drama, Years, Next Year

  "In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 26, 2014.

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• The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Motivational, Thinking, Vases

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

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• The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Ego, Looks, Persons

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• Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Sex, Ideas, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社

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• All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Mean, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.66

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• In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

  Timothy Keller

  Church

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• The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.

  Newton Lee

  Our World, Government, Two

  Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.191, Springer

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• Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Light, Weight, Green

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• The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

  Leland Ryken

  Biblical, Goal, Translations

  "Leland Ryken Interview Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Teaching, Practice

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2002). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, Random House LLC

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• What does the world need that you can provide?”
Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy
Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready
Internalize and share your social mission
Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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• The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

  Phil Cooke

  Rumor, Way, Speculation

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• I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Vision

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Light, Rose, Dew

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.

  Gideon Gono

  Moving, Land, Agriculture

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• I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Heart, Body, Saws

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