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• The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
  It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
  Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
  or receiving in us just the right answer.
  You, the Staggering Answer

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bangs, Receiving, Answers

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• Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Views, Arms, Sometimes

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are, and almost all the trades in film, there's a lot more men. So I can see without anyone intending to be biased [that] we have kind of a collective choosing of men's stories and a collective of taking men's stories seriously.

  Emma Donoghue

  Mean, Men, Numbers

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• As we're staggering out of the hospital, I don't remember doing this because I was still high, but apparently I turned to the entire operating room staff and screamed "Hey! I'd better not see this on YouTube!"

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Rooms

  "Bill Engvall: Aged & Confused". Comedy/ TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become more political. I've become somewhat more of a political comic because the level of stupidity I've watched is staggering.

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Thinking, Political

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

  Jimmy Wales

  Growth, Rate

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Suffering Of Others, Depth

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• Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sick, Chic, Disgusting

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• Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Technology, Leader, Research

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• In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.

  Mariane Pearl

  Reality, Justice, Everyday

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• Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Get Well, Organization, World

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.

  Bill Capodagli

  Coworker, Results, Produce

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Home, Way, Sides

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Finals

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• The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.

  Barbara Mertz

  Party, Cat, Doors

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• The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

  Dan Simmons

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK

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• As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Country, Eye, Animal

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Nov 15, 2013

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• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  Walter Wink

  Country, Peace, Real

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• Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Balance, Pieces

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
  Colour of lilac,
  Your great puffs of flowers
  Are everywhere in this my New England ...
  Lilacs in dooryards
  Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
  Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
  Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
  You are everywhere.

  Amy Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking, Clouds, Remember You

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, God, Jobs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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