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• If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Crazy, Humility, Breathing

  "The Songs Are Free". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 6, 1991.

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• God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sweet, Names, Taste

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 02, 2017

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• Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

  Daniel Kleppner

  Machines, Century, Bigs

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• Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

  J. G. Ballard

  Photography, Children, Distance

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• The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.

  Abelardo Morell

  Spiritual, Trying, Alive

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• When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

  Catherine Opie

  Growing Up, Kids, Mp3

  "The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie". Interview with Maura Reilly, www.americansuburbx.com. 2001.

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• As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hands, Comfort, May

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• All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wonder, Creation, Transport

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• Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Dear Lord, Numbers, Grace

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• Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

  Don DeLillo

  Communication, Brain, Neurons

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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• Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

  Victoria Moran

  Self Esteem, Awe And Wonder, Conflict

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• All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.

  George Washington

  Real, Party, Character

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.7

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• I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Wake Up, Alive, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Lenses, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Quality, Endurance, Faces

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

  Anna Journey

  Thinking, Inspire, Curiosity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

  Dave Koz

  Guy, Doe, Longevity

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Jessica Jones is very unique, and we are all in awe of the response from the public. It seems that everyone connected with the character, and we enjoyed shooting it.

  Mike Colter

  Character, Unique, Shooting

  "‘Jessica Jones’ Cast on Season 2 Possibilities, Sex Scenes, and ‘Luke Cage’". TCA Press Tour, collider.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

  Dov Davidoff

  Camping, Wonder, Failing

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 09, 2012

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• Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

  Laurence J. Peter

  School, Cages, Half

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• If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

  Michael Shermer

  Humility, Space, Faces

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• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flames, Voice, Greek

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  Karan Johar

  Winning, Long, Want

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• I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Distance, Thinking

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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