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The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesnt make sense. Many Muslims and Orientalists will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible.

The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

The latest issue of GQ magazine, John Kerry talks about what a man should look for in a woman. GQ? If John Kerry is going to talk about what he likes in a woman, shouldn't it be in Fortune or Money magazine?

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

The left looks at the Constitution and sees things that aren't there and then they find 'em. They look at things that are there and claim they're not there. Like the Second Amendment, nah, nah, it's not there, they really didn't intend that. No, no. Abortion. You can't find it, yeah, there it is, plain as day, see, it's right there in the 14th Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, the Fifth - no, it's not.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

The little things are most worthwhile- a quiet word, a look, a smile.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.

the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?

The majority of women in America look like me.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.