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• O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Dragons, Heaven

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ayurveda, Hands, Touching

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.53, Bantam

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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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• Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sports, Art, Inspiration

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• To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Men, Listening

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• I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result, not only for ourselves, but also for the society to which we belong. I generally refer to this sort of love and affection as a universal religion. Everyone needs it, believers as much as non-believers. This attitude constitutes the very basis of morality.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loving Nature, Needs

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• The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

  Emile de Girardin

  Change, Army, Flying

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Agency, Ruthlessness

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.199, Da Capo Press

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• There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Differences

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• In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

  Stephen Hawking

  Odds, Law, Facts

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• Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Home, Silence, Mind

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Done, World, Dull

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• When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Keys, Oneness

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• We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

  Pope Francis

  Clay, Treasure, Jars

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• Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

  Milan Kundera

  Europe, Important, Toil

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• You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Dream, Pain, Reality

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• Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Spring, Flower

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Simple, Ideas, Common Sense

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2016

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• The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  Alan Watts

  Impossible, Process, Fortune

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• Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

  J. C. Ryle

  Blessing, Hymns, People

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• An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

  H. G. Wells

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Ideas, House

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• To behold the day-break!
  The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  The air tastes good to my palate.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Air, Shadow

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

  Junipero Serra

  Fishing, Numbers, Coast

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