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An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful,… — Timothy Foote
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of… — Carl Sagan
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. — Eugene Ionesco
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is… — David Gemmell
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. — Francis Chan
To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that… — Rob Brezsny
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery. — Terence McKenna
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? — Placido Domingo
The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the… — David Malouf
The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them.… — Zig Ziglar
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime… — John Medina
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War… — Tom Brokaw
I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses. — Jim Cymbala
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,… — Arnold Bennett
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty… — Jeffrey Tucker
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,… — Janice Y. K. Lee
Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you… — Colin McGinn
Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I… — Tom Baker
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over… — Guy de Maupassant
An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than… — Simon Greenleaf
It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed… — Judith Perelman Rossner
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing... — George McGovern
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to… — Timothy Freke

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