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• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Book, Science, Egypt

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• Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids.

  Carrie Donovan

  Fashion, Kids, Top Model

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• I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Holiday, Thinking, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Real, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.365, University of Chicago Press

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• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Wind, Sea

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• Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Flower, Butterfly, Bird

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• We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

  Christopher Nolan

  Morning, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

  Edward Albee

  Mother, Years, Play

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• Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Fall, Writing

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jan 11, 2012

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• Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

  John Rothenstein

  Photography, Art, Century

  "The world of Camera".

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• The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

  Hans Kmoch

  Truth, Battle, Chess

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• The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Portraiture

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• Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Everyday Things, Interesting

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• Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

  A. E. Douglass

  Nature, Book, Epic

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• Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Outcomes, Violence, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.78, A&C Black

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• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Hobbies, Needs

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• The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.

  Colin Fletcher

  Weather, Long, Dresses

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• ... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are taken and I think it's a fascinating portfolio.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Real, Taken, Gay

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• Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

  John Cage

  Music, Peace, Noise

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.17, Wesleyan University Press

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• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Change, Vacation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 09, 2015

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• The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

  Raymond Chandler

  Powerful, Adventure, Self

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Important, Lists, Language

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspiring, Sunset, Race

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• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Creativity

  In Observer 1 Mar. 1987

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