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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar… — Mahatma Gandhi
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed… — Albert Claude
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which… — Joseph de Maistre
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. — Diane von Furstenberg
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of… — Sun Tzu
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that… — Dalai Lama
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. — Ferdinand Foch
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. — Ian Tattersall
Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story… — Albert Allen Bartlett
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor
One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may… — Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. — Francois Rabelais
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days,… — Lee Child
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it… — Herbert York
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue. — Jeet Aulakh
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect… — Noah Porter
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: 'I don't… — Yohji Yamamoto

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