"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one… — Garry Kasparov
• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which… — Thomas Jefferson
• But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course… — Saint Augustine
• The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite… — Voltaire
• It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life.… — George Muller
• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny… — Zora Neale Hurston
• I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at… — Wilkie Collins
• It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us. — Paulo Coelho
• The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott

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