Magnification Quotes

• The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Immediacy, Humans

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• Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Microscopes, Existence, Skepticism

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Escritura, Perspicacia, Historias

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

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• Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Imagination, Obstacles

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• El avión. . . no es capaz de un aumento ilimitado. No es probable que llegue a transportar más de cinco o siete pasajeros. Los monoplanos de alta velocidad llevarán aún menos. . . . Sobre las ciudades, se encontrará el centinela aéreo o el policía. Un millar de aviones que vuelan a la ópera deben mantenerse en línea y cada uno debe poder posarse en el techo del auditorio, a su turno.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Ciudades, Volar, Líneas

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• Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.

  Roman Vishniac

  Hands, Lovely, Looks

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• Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Aclaración

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• Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!

  David Berg

  Alegría, Para Siempre, Cielo

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