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Failure is life's magnifying glass.
Simon May / Musician
Glasses
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
Cities
Magnifying
Trifles
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I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
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Uncomfortable
Naturally
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In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.
Yung Lean /
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Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
Chris Gethard / Actor
Civilization
Magnifying
Shows
Transportation
Like
Close
Public
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
George Eliot / Novelist
Glasses
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Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.
Erwin W. Lutzer / Pastor
Glasses
Magnifying
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope / Poet
Men
Eye
Glasses
Magnifying
Eyes Man Look
Greatest
Eyes
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Analysis
Concepts
Magnifying
Sight
Understanding
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Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
Lily Cole / Model
Magnifying
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Stumble
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Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.
Ander Herrera / Soccer Player
Magnifying
Best World Looking
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As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.
Gustaf Skarsgard /
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We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
Fred Hammond / Singer
Inspirational
Lord
Magnifying
Praise
Song
Worship
Sing
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Inspirational
Power
Expectations
Labor
Magnifying
Advantages
Enterprises
Expect
Hazard
Undertaken
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Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.
Gore Verbinski / Film Director
Drama
Glasses
Lenses
Magnifying
Wide
Glass
Lens
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Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
Karen Finerman / Television Personality
Achieve
Achieving The Impossible
Impossible
Magnifying
Waste
Impossible Yourself Your
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I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.
Mitch Hedberg / Comedian
Funny
Humor
Bars
Candy
Fun
Glasses
Late
Mad
Magnifying
Too Late
Front
Glass
Machine
Sized
Vending
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A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
David D. Burns / Author
Defeat
Glasses
Magnifying
Mistake
Overwhelming
Poor
Self
Glass
Personal
Self-Image
Symbol
Transform
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I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.
Dan Trachtenberg / Filmmaker
Extraordinary
Magnifying
Mundane
Commercials
Glass
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With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.
Ezra Taft Benson / Farmer
Ability
Lord
Magnifying
Succeed
Talent
Call
Field
Mission
Miracles
Regardless
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Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
John Harvey Kellogg / Medical Doctor
Do You Know
Hearing
Hearing Things
Magnifying
Multiplying
People
Rate
Roots
Imagining
Root
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez / Actor
Kids
Glasses
Magnifying
Writing
Watched
Glass
Nowadays
So Many People
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People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Abuse
Magnifying
Real World
Confronted
Home Football World
Glass
Go Home
The Real World
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Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.
Nicholas A. Christakis / Physician
Magnifying
Adding
Networks
Explain
Glass
Match
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The game of investing is a process of discovering who you are, what you're interested in, what you're good at, what you love to do, then magnifying that until you gain a sizable edge over all the other people.
Li Lu /
Discovering
Investing
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Process
What You Love
Interested
Love Good Game
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I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt /
Bathroom
Dislike
Fine
Magnifying
Mirrors
Seeing
Shaving
Surprise
Photographs
Course
Detestable
Mirror
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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
Taylor Swift / Singer-Songwriter
Abnormal
And Love
Glasses
Magnifying
Normal Life
Trying
Life Love Relationship
Glass
Lens
Telescope
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I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Dramatic
Eye
Glasses
Lucky
Magnifying
Living
Getting
Gradually
Sounds
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
Xavier Dolan / Actor
Aesthetic
Dresses
Film
Magnifying
Reality
Vintage
Heartbeats
Voluntary
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
Montgomery Clift / Film Actor
Art
Glasses
Magnifying
Mirrors
Glass
Holding
Identify
Mirror
Shakespeare
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I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don’t like it. I don’t like to see everything I see. It’s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I’m not looking at her, I’m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.
Julie Klausner / Author
Feels
Magnifying
Mirrors
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There are times where I'm just open to receive songs. I sit down, and a jam will just come out, all at once. It's like, 'Song. Done.' I can't really explain it. This isn't the best way of putting it, but sometimes I feel like I'm a magnifying glass for vibes.
Benji Hughes /
Best Way
Jam
Magnifying
Vibes
Explain
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Receive
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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
Tomas Transtromer / Poet
Sister
Dew
Divine
Far Away
Following
Horizon
Islands
Joy
Knowing
Magnifying
Night
Sorrow
Summer
Sun
Engine
Glass
Quietly
Route
Ship
Swell
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I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham / Lawyer
Book
Hands
Honestly
Law
Magnifying
Messages
Profession
Miss
Mixed
Sold
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The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.
Saroo Brierley /
Coexistence
Computer
Innovative
Machines
Magnifying
Quintessential
Unimaginable
Functional
Brings
Capabilities
Programs
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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
Patti Smith / Singer-Songwriter
Experience
Giving
Grief
Lost
Magnifying
Painful
People
Remembrance
Person
Then
Also
Anyone
Become
Indulgent
Other
Serve
Something
Starts
Transform
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
D. A. Pennebaker / Filmmaker
Cat
Discovery
Judging
Magnifying
Witness
Clues
Detective
Glass
Uses
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This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Josh Hamilton /
Bills
Day To Day
Day To Day Life
Magnifying
Scary
Tapping
Anxieties
Horror Films
Scary Movies
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'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.
Anthony Doerr / Author Of Novels
Notebook
Curiosity
Magnifying
Memories
Activities
Glass
Hamburg
Studying
Traveling
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Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.
Deborah Tannen / Professor
Daughter
Approval
Magnifying
Rays
Scrutiny
Sun
Yearning
Gaze
Glass
Held
Mothers
Reserve
Result
Subject
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The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at.
Priyamvada Natarajan /
Distance
Effects
Magnifying
Mass
Precise
Relative
Glass
How Far
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Object
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I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.
Lonnie Johnson /
Air
Air Force
Cds
Digital
Distance
Dots
Force
Information
Magnifying
Measuring
Scale
Instrument
Lens
Patent
Reduced
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