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• We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Believe, Mean, Agriculture

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• The vices of some men are magnificent.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Vices

  Charles Lamb, Will MacDonald, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches”

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• If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Honesty, Men

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• Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Insecurity, Promise, Overcoming

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• Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.

  Brad Bird

  "Director Brad Bird Talks Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, IMAX, The Incredibles Sequel, and a Lot More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2011.

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• The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

  Denis Waitley

  Fear, Dark, May

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• If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Epic, Race, Greatest Treasure

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• In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

  Leo Rosten

  Fear, Book, Dark

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”

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• Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Giving, Needs

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

  Theodore Parker

  Promise

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• Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature!
  Have I not worshipped thee with such a love
  As never mortal man before displayed?
  Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation,
  And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways
  As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?

  Humphry Davy

  Science, Men, Mysterious Ways

  Sir Humphry Davy, John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1858). “Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ... With a sketch of his life, and selections from his correspondence. Edited by his brother John Davy”, p.14

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• Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.

  Carl G. Fisher

  New York, Science, Thinking

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• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Heaven, Magnificence

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Men

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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• He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.

  Julia Quinn

  Believe, Wonder, Said

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• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  Don King

  Art, Icons, Boxing

  "Only in America!". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.

  Teresa Wright

  Girl, Real, Clothes

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• I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

  Marion Bartoli

  Years, Wimbledon, Tournaments

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

  Margaret Halsey

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Magnificence

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Book, Cities, Kansas City

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• I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

  Mary MacLane

  Brave, Might, Sometimes

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.82, Petrarca Press

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• I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

  Myrtle Reed

  Army, Personality, Rabbits

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