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- I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to… — Steve Irwin
- When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox
- Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
- In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is… — Joan Raphael-Leff
- In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick
- The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the… — Doreen Valiente
- The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau