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I don't know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky.

Nicholas Sparks

Ocean, Sunset, Sky

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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

Anais Nin

Love, Flower, Heart

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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

Charles Kuralt

Running, Home, Memorable

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It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

Bryan Stevenson

Believe, Heart, Dark

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We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

George Packer

Years, Technological Change, Progress

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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

Gregory of Nyssa

Spiritual, Imagination, Forever

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Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Ocean, Grace, Depth

Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.236

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Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

Ian Holm

War, Eye, Doom And Gloom

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What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Dinah Sheridan

Opposites, Play, Two

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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

Charles Darwin

Nature, Ocean, Reflection

Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

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I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.

Mary Daly

Mistake, Enabling, Ecology

Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.24, Beacon Press

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The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Ambrose

Honesty, Clothes, Simplicity

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The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

Lord Byron

Flower, Wine, Eye

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People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

Gurbaksh Chahal

Thinking, Order, People

Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.59, Macmillan

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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

Catherine Asaro

Military, Rip, Book

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European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Cheikh Anta Diop

Glasses, Balls, Language

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And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

K. W. Jeter

Heart, Thinking, Numbers

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If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.

Carl Sagan

Past, Ideas, Mind

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The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Rivka Galchen

Humble, Answers, Ridiculous

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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Edward Bellamy

Summer, Eye, Dark

Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books

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The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous were the blades of sweat that came from my pores and vanquished him.

Eve Langley

Art, Women, Warrior

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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Sally Schneider

Food, Comfort, Stuff

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[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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