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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."	Aaron Burr
"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."	Adela Rogers St. Johns
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."	Agnes de Mile
"As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool."	Akhenaton
"What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him."	Alan Marshall Beck
"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Albert Camus
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."	Albert Einstein
"E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by L/c²."	Albert Einstein
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."	Albert Einstein
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."	Albert Einstein
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."	Arlo Guthrie
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."	Benjamin Franklin
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."	Bernard Meltzer
"There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns."	Bhagavad Gita
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."	Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."	Buddha
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."	Carl Gustav Jung
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."	Carl Gustav Jung
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Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Dickens	Charles Austin Beard
Charles Kingsley	Charles Robert Darwin	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
Dame Edna Everage	Danielle Donoho	Dbjanski
Deane Jordan	Deciderius Erasmus	Doris Lessing
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
Dwight Lyman Moody	Earl Nightingale	Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	Elizabeth Bowen	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Idle	Eugène Ionesco	Euripides
E. L. Doctorow	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Ferdinand Hodler
Forest McDonald	Frank L. Boyden	Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon
François Maurice Mitterrand	Fred Allen	Frederick Douglass
F(rancis) Scott	George Eliot	Georges Bataille
Georges Bernanos	George Gordon Byron	George Jean Nathan
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Guy Lynch	Haniel Long
Hannah More	Harry Emerson Fosdick	Hazrat Inayat Khan
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry C. Blinn	Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield
Homer	Horace Greeley	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Albert Michener	James Arthur Baldwin	Janet Louise Holman
Jean Baudrillard	Jennie Jerome Churchill	Jesse Lair
Jesse Louis Jackson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Milton
John Berry	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Josh Billings	Julie Burchill	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	K. D. Lang
Lao-Tzu	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon	Maurice Freehill
Maya Angelou	Michael J. Gelb	Michel Leiris
Michio Kushi	Miguel de Cervantes	Minnie Haskins
Mohammed Daud Khan	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Montagu Butler
Morris Mandel	M. Hirschfield	Napoleon I
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Newt Gingrich	Og Mandino
Oliver Goldsmith	Oprah Winfrey	Peter Hoeg
Prince Otto	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard J. Ferris	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robertson Davies
Robert Maynard Hutchins	Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns
Saint Thomas Aquinas	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sam Ewing
Sarah McLachlan	Siddha Nagarjuna	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	Sri da Avabhas
Susanna Moodie	Swedish Carol	Taylor Benson
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas De Quincey	Tom Fitzgerald
Truman Capote	Victor Hugo	William Ellery Channing
William Hallman	William Hiram Foulkes	William H(oward) Gass
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller