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Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity,… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
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My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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