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• Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Support, Religion

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 264

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• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Vision

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

  Robert Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Creative

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Blessing

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• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

  Joan Chen

  Girl, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Trust, Love You

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

  George Clooney

  Stars, Father, Cincinnati Ohio

  "George Clooney: Confessions of a Dirty Mind". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. November 24, 2011.

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Home, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

  Diablo Cody

  People, Loving Others

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• Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

  Diablo Cody

  Able, Wonderful, Wells

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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  Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Aquarius, Heaven

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• Fine art is knowledge made visible.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Made, Fine

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• Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Essence, Transcendentalism

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• My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Echoes, Names

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Beauty, Science, Delight

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• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fiction Writers, Universe

  Gustave Flaubert (2009). “Madame Bovary”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

  Frank Gehry

  Chicago, Architecture

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

  Al Gore

  Political, Unusual, Bigs

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Cancer, Fighting, Cells

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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