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• And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Feelings, Body, Might

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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• Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

  Marisha Pessl

  Dad, Live Your Life, Mind

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.58, Penguin

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• There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.

  Rick Bass

  Responsibility, Weight, Moments

  Rick Bass (1998). “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

  Neil Gaiman

  Virginia, Ruins, Restaurants

  Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Parks (2013). “Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition”, p.180, Wildside Press LLC

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• Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Feet, Athletic, Looks

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.184, Harlequin

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• What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Believe, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Moving, Next Move

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

  Louise Erdrich

  Perfection, Tasks, Splendor

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• Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.

  Mark Levin

  Philosophy, Years, Age

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• Desari reached up to trace his lips. ‘You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth.’ He arched an eyebrow at her. ‘Just my mouth is amazing?’ ‘You are such a man.’ Her eyes laughed at him. ‘You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent.’ He nodded. ‘Magnificent. I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words, lifemate.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.

  Margaret Visser

  Philosophical, Evil, Greek

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• Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Tree, Political, Giants

  Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.

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• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Space, Our World

  "Revisiting Fred Rogers’ 2002 Commencement Address". news.dartmouth.edu. March 27, 2018.

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• ..... if we were talking to you on your first day of physical life experience, we would say to you, "Welcome to Planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. You are a magnificent creator. And you are here by your powerful and deliberate wanting to be here. Go forth, giving thought to what you are wanting, attracting life experience to help you decide what you want and once you have decided, giving thought only unto that"

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Talking, Giving

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• I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

  Camillo Golgi

  Brain, Pieces, Potassium

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• Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.

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• I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

  Giordano Bruno

  Atheism, Return, Praying

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if we will walk in obedience before the Lord, if we will simply live the gospel we will be blessed in a magnificent and wonderful way. We will be looked upon as a peculiar people who have found the key to a peculiar happiness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessed, Keys, People

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• We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Evil, Shining, Presidential

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• You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Achievement, Presidential

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.

  Darlene Zschech

  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

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• There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, 4th Of July, Cinco De Mayo

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.25, tredition

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