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" Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. "

" According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century). "

" A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else. "

" A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. "

Benjamin Franklin

" After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities. "

" After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one. "

" A human being is only breath and shadow. "

" Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away. "

" A little man often cast a long shadow. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself. "

" All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. "

" Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. "

" And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. "

" And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. "

George Washington Cable

" Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance. "

" A people always ends by resembling its shadow. "

Rudyard Kipling

" A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. "

Tomas Transtromer

" A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. "

Adelbert von Chamisso

" Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them. "

" Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint. "

William Morris Hunt

" As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow. "

" As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed. "

" As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. "

" As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. "

" As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose. "

Douglas Alexander

" Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. "

" Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. "

Christopher Morley

" Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. "

" Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow. "

Adelbert von Chamisso

" Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it. "

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