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The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Brightness Centre Contradictory Dark Demands Disappears Eye Flame Light Like Meaning More Own Quality Sea See Undefined Whose You

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One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Both Brightness Case Crowded Dangerous Dead Ghost Greek Iliad Lament Maybe Mention More Name Names Next Piece Poem Poetry Rules Than World

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I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

~Bobbi Brown

Topics: Bright Brightness Easy Eye Face Gives Lip Look Looking Love Neutral Over-The-Top Without Your I Love

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Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.

~Bonnie Hammer

Topics: Add Blue Brightness Each Exterior Levity Shots Show Showing Skies

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My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Amateur Astronomy Brightness Brought Interest Magnitude Out Star Term Used Which

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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

~Charles Francis Richter

Topics: Assigned Astronomy Being Brightness Depending Different Measured Object Range Similar Very Where

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The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Any Beyond Brightness Close Combined Every Greatest Itself Miracle Miracles Points Seconds Someone Something Star Time Universe Without

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Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

~George Martin

Topics: Again Around Brightness Butterflies Color Dream Dream World Everybody Film Had Happy Image Kind Land Like Lovely Really Smiling Strictly Well Where Working World You

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