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There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Fuchs

German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

Thomas Gray

English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

17th-century English poet and playwright

When you’re special to a cat, you’re special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Lester B. Pearson

14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869-1951)

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

William Tyndale

English Bible translator and reformer

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn’t stand the sight of the audience.

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

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