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• What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

  Monica Baldwin

  Humility, Doe, Intimacy

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• I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Children, Liars

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

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• We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

  Billy Graham

  Jobs, Thinking, Diverse Society

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• People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Helping, Adaptation

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.

  Kate Morton

  Would Be, Paper, Kind

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Dark, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.514, GENERAL PRESS

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• ..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

  Gary Chapman

  Inspirational Love, Past, Needs

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean Girls

  Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"

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• There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

  Hazel Scott

  Family, Children, Reason

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• Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

  Susan Orlean

  Space, Texture, World

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• A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Would Be, Presence Of God, Marvelous

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.50, Harmony

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• One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

  Jean Vanier

  Healing, Responsibility, Self Confidence

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

  Agatha Christie

  Ignored, Instinct, Marvelous

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• Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Suffering, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

  Edward Abbey

  Simple, Everyday, Ordinary

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

  Duane Michals

  Long, Film, Enough

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• The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

  David Whyte

  Identity, Doe, Good Questions

  "Big Questions to Ask Yourself Throughout Your Life" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Brother, Airplane

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• I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Nice, Writing

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• The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Years, People

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• One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, Way

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Stars, Want, Fool

  "The Successful Woman : How You Can Have a Career, a Husband, and a Family - and Not Feel Guilty About It" by Joyce Brothers, (p. 18), 1988.

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• Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

  Zig Ziglar

  Passion, Permit, Marvelous

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