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At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Paul Kantner

Honesty, Firsts, Iridescent

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‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, God, Faith

Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Country, Men

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The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

Peter Higgs

Thinking, Glasses, Light

"Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.

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You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

John Welwood

Love, Beautiful, Way

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In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

Paul Scott

Lying, India, Looks

Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

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What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

Azam Ali

Dream, Voice, Perfect

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The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

William Hurrell Mallock

Moving, Clouds, Wind

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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Francois Fenelon

Command Not, Knowing, Faith In God

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.238, 1895.

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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

Eve Ensler

Moving, Wind, Molecules

Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.217, Macmillan

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There comes a holy
and transparent time
when every touch
of beauty
opens the heart
to tears.
This is the time
the Beloved of heaven
is brought tenderly on earth.
This is the time
of the opening
of the ROSE.

Rumi

Heart, Rose, Heaven

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In the depth of my soul there is
A wordless song - a song that lives
In the seed of my heart.
It refuses to melt with ink on
Parchment; it engulfs my affection
In a transparent cloak and flows,
But not upon my lips.

Khalil Gibran

Song, Heart, Soul

Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.47, Editora Dracaena

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My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

Elie Saab

Design, Personality, Sync

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Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Believe, Order, Mexico

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It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Maxfield Parrish

Beautiful, Light, Color

Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Al Gore

Government, Long, People

Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.123, A&C Black

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If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Dalai Lama

People, Honest, Truthful

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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

C. S. Lewis

Garden, Trying, Use

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Octavio Paz

Wall, Discovery, Self

Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one

Ben Crenshaw

Real, Eye, Player

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Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

Frances Allen

Media, People, Marketing

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One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

Pauline Marois

People, Office, Levels

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I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Stanley Kunitz

Dream, Art, Writing

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It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

Tom Udall

Thinking, Order, Law

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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

Steven Pressfield

Self, Giving, Preparation

"Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2011.

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