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• Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Night, Cold, Hell

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• I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Book, Example

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• But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, United States, Multitudes

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.157

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Imagination, World

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• I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Feelings, Moments, Conscious

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• There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Fun, Expression

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.117, Hay House, Inc

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• Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Decision, Sake, Determined

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• Every realm of nature is marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Realms

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1872, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mind, World, Illusion

  "Zodiacal Course". Book by Samael Aun Weor, 1986.

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• All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

  John Howe

  Book, Glimpse, Fans

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• Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Believe, Office

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

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• It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Fun, Photographer, Marvellous

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• Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Beautiful, Atonement, Repentance

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• The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

  Ellen G. White

  Sight, America, Lasts

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy”, Lulu.com

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• In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

  Ellen G. White

  Father, Men, Race

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• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Truth, Math

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• Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Hands, Use

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

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• There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

  Al Koran

  Thinking, World, Abundance

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• Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beauty, Truth, Flower

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• Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Sweet, Gold, Littles

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul, Grenbry Outhwaite (2016). “Fairyland”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.

  Susan Orlean

  Song, Reading, Writing

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• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Inheritance, Broads

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• When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

  Jean Plaidy

  Atmosphere, London, Palaces

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