"Although there may be nothing new under the……" — Robertson Davies

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
• I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to… — Jacqueline Bisset
• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the… — Daniel Boone
• The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton
• It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes… — Ernst Haeckel
• Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so… — Carl Sagan
• It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James
• Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and… — Magdalena Abakanowicz
• I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell… — Dannion Brinkley
• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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