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    Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

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    In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

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    In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

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    In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

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    In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

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    I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

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    I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".

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    In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

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    Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

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    I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

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    In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

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    I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

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    I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

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    I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.

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    I shine in tears like the sun in April.

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    I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

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    I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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    Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.

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    I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

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    I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

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    I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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    It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!

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    It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

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    It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

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    It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

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    it is not given to everyone to shine in adversity.

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    It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

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    It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

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    It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

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    It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

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    It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

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    It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

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    It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

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    It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

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    It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

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    It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.

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    It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

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    It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

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    It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

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    It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

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    It takes a lot of pressure off you just to go out and play, and your talent sometimes shines even more when you don't worry about individual stuff.

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    It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

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    It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

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    It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

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    It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.

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    I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

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    I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

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    I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

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    I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.

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    It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.