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• Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Soul

  "The Mystery of the Cross in Padre Pio of Pietrelcina". Book by Gerardo Di Flumeri (p. 16), 1983.

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• That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Discovery, Fiesta, Should

  "Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition".

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• youth is a marvelous garment

  Iris Murdoch

  Youth, Garments

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• Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

  William George Jordan

  Leadership, Business, Men

  William George Jordan (2017). “The Majesty of Calmness - Individual Problems and Possibilities”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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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've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Memories, Mirrors, Wells

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• Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Rivers, Forever

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

  Nora Ephron

  Christian, College, Boredom

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.45, Vintage

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• Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

  Marie Windsor

  Years, Acting, Stella

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• I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age, the best of all. As we reflect on the plodding course of mankind, from the time of our first parents, we cannot help feeling grateful.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Grateful, Blessing, Long

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• This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

  Pete Hamill

  Color, Joy, Whimsy

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• I think I did marry a marvelous man.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Men, Thinking

  Interview With Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Degrees, Study, Linguistics

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• The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mistake, Miracle, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.375, Library of Alexandria

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• I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

  Willem de Kooning

  Evil, Able, Canvas

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

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

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Eye

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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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• We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.

  John G. Lake

  Heaven, Atmosphere, Awakening

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• For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Knowing, Ego

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• And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Grateful, Religion

  Norman Vincent Peale (2014). “Words I Have Lived”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

  Will Rogers

  People, Generosity, Causes

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

  Walter Cronkite

  Heart, Blood, Ties

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• Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Inspiration, Demand, Enthusiasm

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