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• To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Science, Unique, Creation

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• Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.

  Basil Hume

  Attitude, Consistency, Needs

  Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing

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• The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Gateways, Subtlety

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• We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.

  John Daniel

  Distance, Lying, Lakes

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.

  John Daniel

  Bridges, Rivers, Water

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.108, Counterpoint

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• Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

  Warren Buffett

  Doctors, Two, Advice

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1987.

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Ancient

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• The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

  Gretchen Mol

  Interesting, Littles, Pages

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• There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Knows

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• The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

  James Denton

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

  Richard Kern

  Ran

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. August 17, 2004.

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• The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Liquor

  Wilkie Collins (2016). “The Moonstone”, p.208, Wilkie Collins

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• It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  Self, Creative, Conscious

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Nwo

  Adam Weishaupt (2013). “The Illuminati Manifesto”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

  Michael Servetus

  Men, May, Facts

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• Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

  David McCallum

  Enough

  "Fictional character: Dr. Vance Hendricks". Babylon 5 (TV Series); Infection, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Heart, Want, Physics

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• In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Stars, Science, Years

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• It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Men, Cells

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• My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

  Paulo Coelho

  Secret, Life Is, Dedicated

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

  Tom Robbins

  Soul, Waxing, Granted

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• Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Inspire, Mind

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• All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

  Robert Grudin

  Entrances, Great Experiences, Facade

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Endless, Planets

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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