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• “The colossal sun ... is nature's captive ... the great bulky elephant with its massive strength has no power to disobey the restrictions nature has laid upon him; but man, weak and diminutive in comparison, empowered by mind which is an effulgence of Divinity itself, can resist nature's control and apply natural laws to his own uses.”

  The Huffington Post: Shastri Purushotma: Humans And Chimpanzees: What's The Difference?

• “To some degree such invective countered the unbridled hype characterized by this panegyric by an anonymous English critic in 1841: "Liszt, the Polyphemus of the pianoforte; the Aurora Borealis of musical effulgence; the Niagara of thundering harmonies.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works

• “He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.”

  Chapter 14

• “Putting your eye right up to the lens, the screen and the forms the images instantly disappear in a blinding, joyful effulgence of golden light.”

  Simon & Schuster: Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar

• “Wow, that guy blesses us all with a glorious effulgence of fractal wrongness.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “Whence came it that a radiance, intenser than the effulgence of the”

  All this desolate emptiness.

• “It would be hard to top, as a one-sentence summation of Ingres, Schjeldahl's saying, "There is no light in Ingres, only radiant effulgence, and no space, only material presence" — or his describing the ephemerality of certain artworks with his image of their having "the shelf life of fish.”

  An Eye on the Tremors

• “Eros, the energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process, which is also driving that very process right now as you read these words, is vibrating with its own effulgence and unrelenting intensity.”

  Andrew Z. Cohen: Peace Is Not the Answer

• “He has perfected its effulgence, and completed through it His religion, He let the Prophet Leave this world when he had conveyed to the people all his commands of guidance through the Qura'n.”

  Right Wing Dutch Politician Plans Anti-Quran Film; Government Is Concerned

• “The Living Legend scheduled to shed her effulgence on the residents sent word that she would be arriving a trifle late, but she was reading the excerpts we had submitted to her industriously.”

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