Many who observe this holiday will light the Diya, or lamp, which symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.
They may not be actual humans, but their humanity, blackened and bruised though it may be, sheds light and darkness on our own.
Light and darkness are always at war, and the outcome is always hanging in the balance, hanging on small things, unnoticed at the time.
Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.
That image from NASA is the reason why we should celebrate with light, not darkness.
One bright light amid the darkness is retail sales, which rose by 17% in real terms in the year to October.
The aim of the constitution is to shed light on the darkness.
But when going from bright light to maximum darkness, studies have shown, eye sensitivity continues to change for up to 25 minutes, he says.
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In these times of financial uncertainty, this helps provide some much needed light in the darkness allowing the community to have something positive to focus on.
His light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out.
Tonight, the pendulum swings from pain to possibilities, from hurt to hope, from darkness to light.
The first two movements explore this struggle between darkness and light with no resolution.
The electric light bulb has made darkness optional, eliminating the enforced idleness that used to begin at sunset.
The drama entails a move between darkness and light, flesh and spirit, an old life and a new one.
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Thursday's Senate confirmation hearing will be, in popular mythology at least, a brief moment when light flashes into the darkness.
The adage "out of darkness comes light" is a reminder for those who endure tragedy that there is always hope.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
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The music is accompanied by a ghostly halo of harmonics, which is typical of the interplay between images of darkness and light that dramatises the whole cycle.
To this day, Jews around the world honor the Maccabees' everlasting hope that light will overcome the darkness, that goodness will overcome evil, and that faith can accomplish miracles.
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In the case of the Argus II, the bionic eye or more accurately, the artificial retina, will turn darkness into light through a system comprised of electronics in the eye and wearable technology which wirelessly transmits a signal to the implant in the eye that lets the patient see again.
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Then he laughed and stood up and waved his gloved hands again and jerked the light chain, bringing down darkness.
As a result, a new Golden Age began as Europe emerged out of the darkness into the light of reason.
But as sure as darkness follows the light, spam text is about to cloud the cleanest online communications channel making it that much less trustworthy and valuable.
There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.
When the sun goes down, crossing the line between the City of Light and the City of Darkness is eerie, almost post-apocalyptic: moving within minutes from the bright lights of Times Square to the narrow unlit streets of the Financial District with the looming outlines of skyscrapers towering overhead.
Our eyes were accustomed now to the darkness and to the light from the water.
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