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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath,"… — Ambrose Bierce
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. — Howell Raines
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and… — Paola Antonelli
We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift… — Charles Hendry
So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to… — Graeme Simsion
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is… — Emily Greene Balch
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence… — Edward Kennedy
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. — Karl Barth
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America… — Tony Blair
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to… — Eknath Easwaran
You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with… — John Yau
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because… — John Mott
For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous — Walter J. Ong
One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so. — Aminu Kano
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's… — Urs Fischer
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. — Felicity Kendal
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference. — John Banville
There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a… — Fatima Jinnah
We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here… — Edward F Edinger
In war trivial causes produce momentous events. — Julius Caesar
What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored. — John Greenleaf Whittier
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse… — Scott Anderson
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

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