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• The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Journey, Way

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Stars

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.

  Julian Whitaker

  Loss, Inspire, Facts

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• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Judging, Atonement, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.367, Discovery House

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• Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Religion, Atmosphere, Magic

  Malinowski, Bronislaw (2014). “Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• Bodies of holy men and women exude
  Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
  But under heavy loads of trampled clay
  Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
  Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Lying, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Generations, Kind

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• Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Creative, Genius

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• It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

  Max Hastings

  Computer, Easier, Made

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• The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.

  Justus von Liebig

  Men, Order, Ideas

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• The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

  Toby Jones

  Eye, Talking, People

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

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• If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Giving Up, Ignorance, Research

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.150, Penguin

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Fall, Dark

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “The Boston book: being specimens of metropolitan literature”, p.362

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• I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

  Lindsay Pearce

  Events, Six Months, Back When

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• It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Real, Journey, Expression

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's called the "Mentalist." And it's about this guy who has a heightened sense of observation. It's miraculous; he's the only guy in the world who can tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey.

  David Letterman

  Differences, Guy, World

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• As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Miracle, Trust Yourself, Process

  Twitter post from May 2, 2017

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• The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Good Life, Kids, Unique

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• When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Waiting, Firsts

  "Exclusive: Chelsea Clinton on motherhood, her childhood and changing the world". Interview with Jeanne Sager, www.sheknows.com. September 15, 2015.

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• The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

  Laura Day

  Healing, Sun, Crisis

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• Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Government, People

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