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One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that...

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The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are beh...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple yo...

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Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...

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Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To ...

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I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!

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P. L. TraversMary Poppins Comes Back

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...

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I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time...

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I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around...

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...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of a...

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sometimes i think my head is so big because its full of dreams

And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how ...

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olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she...

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I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around...

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I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says. "Yeah, I ag...

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Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do...

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One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it help...

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He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from differen...

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Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of...

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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impression...

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...

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Those who dwell , as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never a...

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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune ...

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Rachel CarsonThe Sense of Wonder

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of cre...

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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...

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Richard DawkinsUnweaving the Rainbow: Science

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a though...

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Richard DawkinsUnweaving the Rainbow: Science

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h...

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In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite pos...

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and ...

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He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," abou...

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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and mor...

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All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle...

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely w...

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It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's the...

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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a m...

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...

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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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Thomas BrowneReligio Medici; And Other Writings

Wonder is the basis of worship.

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

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I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing...

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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn,...

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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your h...

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dJack be nimble,Jack be quick,Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick.Emma was still,Emma was late...

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The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

The world, whatever we might think about it terrified by its vastness and by our helplessness in the...

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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the univer...

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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensat...

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The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worshi...

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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward histo...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelGod in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...

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Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Hei...

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children...

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

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Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own...

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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and ...

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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

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What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

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The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

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Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of ...

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I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of ext...

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