#lighten

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#enlightened #hope #self-interest #spirit #will

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#been #book #doing #enlighten #find

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#coast #doubt #enlightened #government #great

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#enlightenment #especially #reason #schools #science

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#because #enlightenment #everything #goal #intimacy

I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. ↗

— Debra Winger

#family #fun #have fun #i #i can

When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences. ↗

— Ariel Winter

#also #am #dance #experiences #facebook

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#christianity #enlightenment #rational #reason #sin

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#approaching #bear #bring #enlightened #feel