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• Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Connections, Information

  "Small Change". www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Coincidence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

  Victoria Wood

  Royal, Massage, Members

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• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Way, Sides, World

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• The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

  Anthony Trollope

  Secret, Half, World

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4576, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

  Octave Mirbeau

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Art, Light

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• The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

  Jonathan Raban

  Feet, America, Rude

  1990 HuntingMister Heartbreak, ch.2.

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• The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Men, Intuition

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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• Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Believe, Wine, Rome

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 2

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• Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Fickle, Vain

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.2

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• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  Margot Asquith

  Brain, Would Be, Looks

  "Ego 5" by James Agate, London: Harrap, (p. 136), 1942.

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• Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.

  Max Beckmann

  Jobs, Heart, Order

  "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, 1963.

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• It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poetry, Mastery, Logic

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Lakes, Sea

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• If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Future, Men, Intellectual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Resources, Know How

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

  Viv Richards

  Thinking, Play, Perfect

  "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

  Edward Young

  Believe, Wonder, Knows

  Edward Young (1767). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes”, p.225

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• Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Encouragement, Pieces, Firsts

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• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.

  Leland Bell

  Home, Trying, Pushing

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• Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Noses, World

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• Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Nice, Bags

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