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  •    And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 7:3.

  • Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.

    -John Milton
      Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

  • Beam us up, Mr Scott.

    - Gene Roddenberry
      StarTrek,'Gamesters ofTriskelion'.The phrase is often misquoted as'Beam me up, Scotty'.

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