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• Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

  James Surowiecki

  Book, Technology, Space

  "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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• Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

  Lewis Thomas

  Views, Body, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Sometimes, Reactions

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  Ethel Waters

  Ohio, Mohawks, Columbus

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• God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Motherhood, Artist

  "Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture". Book edited by Patrick J. Meehan, 1987.

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• Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  "Rio and the New Millennium" by Vaclav Havel, www.nytimes.com. June 3, 1992.

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• Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

  Gloria Steinem

  Unhappy, Unhappy Family

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

  John Taylor

  Children, Men, Simplify

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• My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Taken

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• one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

  John Keats

  Mind, Speculation

  Beth Lau, John Keats (1998). “Keats's Paradise Lost”, p.74, University Press of Florida

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• What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Gay, Wings

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• Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the less mysterious. It, too, undergoes transformations. Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would even say against human nature.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Hands, Two, Space

  "Highcastle: A Remembrance".

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• The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Boys, Alchemist

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• The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

  Julio Cortazar

  Believe, Doe, Letters

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• The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

  Andre Breton

  Children, Mind, Adults

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.104, City Lights Books

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• Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wall, Night, Black

  Guy de Maupassant, Arnold Kellett (1976). “The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror”, Pan

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Band, Way, Sometimes

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.6, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

  Jack London

  Summer, Running, Book

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

  Shel Silverstein

  Running, Halfway There, Land

  Shel Silverstein, “The Bridge”

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• If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Two, Principles, Ridiculous

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• You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing, Ugly, Accepted

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.26, Random House

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• Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

  Mary Karr

  Mother, Liars, Believe

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.311, Pan Macmillan

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• It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hair

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• It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.

  Robert E. Howard

  Men, Feet, Dominance

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Jewels of Gwahlur: American modern Literature”, p.37, VM eBooks

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