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• Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  People, Secret, Bedroom

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.

  Tracy Caulkins

  Workout, Feels, Rugged

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• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  Sade Adu

  Kissing, Blow, First Kiss

  Song: Never as Good as the First Time, Album: Promise

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• You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Want, Function

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels”, p.777, Book House Publishing

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• Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Being Me, Enjoy, Feels

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• It was a really wonderful experience [at Hi Honey, I'm Home show]. I loved Nick At Nite at the time, and I was obsessed with watching it, so just to meet some of the more experienced stars of the older shows was a real treat and a thrill for me.

  Julie Benz

  Stars, Real, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

  Helen Exley

  Proud, Funny Business, Lost

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• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Death, Shining, Shadow

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• An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Writing, People, May

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Girl, Sweet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.310, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Heart, Honor

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• During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

  David Lynch

  Sadness, Dark, Feelings

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod,
  But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  God, Past, May

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• Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving;
  Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

  Richard Realf

  Hands, Giving, Silence

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.

  Rihanna

  Fashion, Shopping, Risk

  "Rihanna's Fashion Faves". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. June 27, 2010.

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• If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

  George Eliot

  Light, Looks, Guests

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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• To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

  Marv Albert

  Sports, Dream, Team

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• There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Orchestra, Greater

  "Julie Andrews: The real deal". Interview With Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. May 17, 2007.

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• All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.

  Edward Thomson

  Past, Men, Heaven

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.304

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• You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it!

  Venita VanCaspel

  People, Would Be, Making Money

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.

  Marie Van Vorst

  Fall, Heart, Voice

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• Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Pace, Manhattan, Mumbai

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Growing Up, Real, Goal

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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