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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Feminism
Germaine Greer

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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton

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Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Insights
Hamming

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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Suffering
Herodotus

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Sin
Eric Hoffer

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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Insights
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Eyes
Helen Keller

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Mind
Thomas Kempis

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Absence
Thomas Kempis

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Love At First Sight
Christopher Marlowe

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Love
Christopher Marlowe

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Misfortunes
W. Somerset Maugham

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Opinions
Marshall Mcluhan

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
Law and Lawyers
David Mellor

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Talent
Titus Maccius Plautus

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Beauty
Alexander Pope

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Merit
Alexander Pope

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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Travel and Tourism
John Enoch Powell

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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Nature
Llewelyn Powys

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They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.
Antipathy
Marshall Pugh

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Irony
Agnes Repplier

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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Perception
Agnes Repplier

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor
Leo Rosten

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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
Color
John Ruskin

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Adversity
Seneca

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun