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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing… — Edmund Burke
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo… — James Merrill
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in… — Stephen Greenblatt
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. — Oscar Niemeyer
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we… — Hermann Weyl
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human… — Gore Vidal
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and… — Lyn Gardner
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money… — Charles Caleb Colton
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and… — Giles Smith
It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine… — Adam Zagajewski
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. — Mark Twain
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in… — James Fallows
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust… — P.J. O'Rourke
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire… — Robertson Davies
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than… — Marisha Pessl
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride… — Sara Paretsky
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari. — Alexander McCall Smith

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