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• I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Self, Important, Body

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• The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Firsts, Obvious, Understood

  Lawrence Kushner (1999). “Honey from the Rock”, p.32, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Eye, Keys, Microsoft Word

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• It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Daughter, Love Is, Emotion

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• Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

  Luci Shaw

  Calling, States, Seems

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• From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

  Jonis Agee

  Sexy, Dream, Sleep

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• This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.

  Jonis Agee

  Falling In Love, Moving, Character

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• The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

  Antony Sher

  Careers, Acting, Whole

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• To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

  John Galt

  Policy, Felt

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• Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Looks, This Life

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• Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Elements, Birth, Primal

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Ambition, Years

  Diary entry on August 01, 1945. "Prelude to Leadership". Book by John F. Kennedy, 1995.

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• more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then

  e. e. cummings

  Shining, Miracle, Alive

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Accomplishment, Mind, Path

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• No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.

  William Ralph Inge

  Greek, Mouths, Esoteric

  "Christian Mysticism: The Bampton Lectures". Book by William Ralph Inge, Lecture I, www.gutenberg.org. 1899.

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• Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Should, Buyers, Stock Exchange

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Nothing burns like the cold. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Laughter is poison to fear.

  George R. R. Martin

  Laughter, Wine, Knights

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• I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

  Donald Miller

  Language, Ability To Communicate, Intricate

  Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

  George Steiner

  Art, Writing, Musical

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.

  Paul Davies

  Earth, Genes, Microbes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Leaving, Analysis

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Unique, Unseen, Lenses

  Anthony Lawlor (1994). “The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture”, Tarcher

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• I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  Robert Gober

  Thinking, Childhood, Catholic

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