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• One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

  Niels Bohr

  Butterfly, Science, Color

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• I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiketâ. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Humanity, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.

  Carlo Rubbia

  Art, Science, Reality

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, Cities, America

  James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Faces, Barbers

  1595 Bottom. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc.1, l.23-6.

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Beautiful, Morning, Knowing

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• Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

  David Hume

  Battle, Oracles, May

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Passion, Self, Prejudice

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• I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

  Richard Meale

  Couple, Doors, Play

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Discipline, World, Shock

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

  Paul Merton

  Oysters, Guy, Edinburgh

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• Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

  Antonio Machado

  Heart, Sleep, Night

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Believe, Men, Body

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• It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

  Margaret Sanger

  Vision, Quests, Obstacles

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• Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Humor, Night

  1965 Television interview, discussing Freud's theory of catharsis through laughter, whereby jokes produce a feeling of elation.

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• For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Cutting, Europe, Important

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

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• Work is its own best earthly meed,
  Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
  Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

  Jean Ingelow

  Work, Sea, Afar

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.232

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• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sleep

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

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• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  Francesca Annis

  Jobs, Children, Erotic

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

  Angela Carter

  Desire, Shapes, Kaleidoscope

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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