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God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled froma Blessed Tree, anolivethat isneitherof the East nor of the West whose oil wellnigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; Light upon Light; (God guides to His Light whom He will). (And God strikes similitudes for men, and God has knowledge of everything.)
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze


— Alfred Stieglitz (1887) in the American Annual of Photography 1897.

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In effect it seemed to him that, though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior: advantages, even, that were well-nigh boundless in their scope.

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— Ch. 3 (The Magic Mountain (1924))

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We have established complete liberty of conscience , and, in consequence , a complete liberty for mental activity. All free and daring souls have before them a well-nigh limitless opening for endeavor of any kind.


— Theodore Roosevelt, in "The World Movement", address delivered at the University of Berlin (12 May 1910)

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