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• Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Inspiration, Europe, Civilization

  "Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom" also known as "Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" by Mikhail Bakunin, September 1867.

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• Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

  Dean Koontz

  Motivation, Character, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1053, Bantam

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• It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Proud, Humans

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• How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Letters, Able

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.112, Random House

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• We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  Charles Darwin

  Stars, Self, Heaven

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

  Paulo Coelho

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• I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Unique, Done

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• Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Earth, Wonder

  "The Silver Stallion: A Comedy of Redemption". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1926.

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• Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Butterfly, Thinking, Wings

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• All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

  Mark Helprin

  Air, Discovery, Two

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• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  God, Angel, Pride

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Music, Song, Appreciation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?” Bravo on a marvelous achievement.

  Jay Winik

  Drama, War, Book

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• The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Atheist, Government

  TV Series "The 700 Club", www.imdb.com. (1966- ).

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• The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them. Humble yourselves and walk in obedience. I promise that the results that follow will be marvelous to behold and satisfying to experience.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Humble, Humility, Simple

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• It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Funny, Stupid, Science

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, p.74, Springer Science & Business Media

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• There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Paris, Mourning

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