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• The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  School, Science, Titles

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.124, Psychology Press

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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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• Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, God, Humorous

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Years, History, Curiosity

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• how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

  Benjamin Zander

  Absurd, Humans, Human Beings

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.138, Penguin

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Ridiculous, Neighbor, Ridicule

  "Oeuvres, Dialogues des Morts". Book by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (Chapter IV), traslated, 1683.

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• There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

  Nelson DeMille

  House, Mafia, Want

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• If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Our World, Light

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• Everyone came here to do something magnificent.

  Kim Coles

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Alive, Want

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• What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

  Mark Levin

  Father, Government, Faces

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• Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life -- a life of joy, creativity and love -- as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly.

  Marianne Williamson

  Morning, Eye, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 26, 2013

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• The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

  James MacDonald

  Obstacles, Christ, Refusal

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2016

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

  Carl Safina

  Stress, Ocean, Blessed

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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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• This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

  Henry Mitchell

  Death, Garden, Dying

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.2, Indiana University Press

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• Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

  Peter Cundall

  Garden, Compost, Turns

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• We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Oil, Doubt

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• Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Dance, Perfect, Unity

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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