"The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly.."
It's originally from the movie Blade Runner. To my knowledge it does not appear in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the book on which the movie was based.
"Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, original screenplay written by Hampton Fancher, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, rewritten by David Peoples and released in 1982."
-- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
Lao Tzu or Laozi was a philosopher of ancient China in the 6th century BC best known as the author of Tao Te Ching, and the founder of philosophical Taoism.
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-The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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One and a half. One to turn the light bulb, and half of one to provide applause.
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you die
The light we see from the Sun is from the Sun itself; the entire surface of the Sun is bright. Only half of the Moon is bright, because it is illuminated by the Sun. The sun generates light, the moon can only reflect it, not generate any.
It is 9 times brighter, so therefor 9 squared or 9 x 9=81 times as bright.
It may work if the base is the same but it would only be half as bright.
Bright fortnight is the first half of the first tithi
The light bulb will probably burn out, if the fuse of the lamp does not burn out first. On the other hand, a lamp with 240V rating can still be used in the USA, but the light will be about half as bright for the same light bulb.
Eoin Colfer wrote Half-Moon Investigators.
bright purple
The illuminated part
the sun's rays
It's from "Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
in the lake, when the moon is half-dark and half-bright