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• Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

  Eric Gibbons

  Art, Sadness, Difficult Situations

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

  Criss Angel

  Magic, Age, World

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• Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

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• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  David Brin

  Hate, Believe, Hard Work

  "David Brin: Dialog With the Future". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1997.

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• The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Creating, Mind

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• The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

  James Trefil

  Nature, Taken, Law

  James S. Trefil (2003). “The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

  Jim Lovell

  Loneliness, Earth, Realizing

  "Earth never looked so good". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2015.

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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• Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

  Gerald Schroeder

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

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• The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

  John Ralston Saul

  Destiny, Political, Intellectual

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• To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  Simon Boswell

  Littles, Steps, Conformity

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• Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

  Nelly Furtado

  Mystical, Music Is, Stills

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• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Light, Hands

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• Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

  Philip Pullman

  Religious, Moving, Makeup

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• Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Running, Technology, Reality

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• It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Offering, Order

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• Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

  Annie Lennox

  Feels, Persons, Nelson

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• There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Awe, Credulity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.272, Courier Corporation

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• Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

  Po Bronson

  Bliss, Has Beens, Known

  Po Bronson (2005). “Why Do I Love These People?: The Families We Come from and the Families We Form”

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• How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

  Jodie Foster

  Believe, Mystery, Mystical

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• Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

  Don DeLillo

  Communication, Brain, Neurons

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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• The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Accountability, Democracy

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• The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

  Ben Lerner

  Exciting, Awe

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• It takes no prisoners. We had to completely change wardrobe for the girls because we had summer wardrobe set and it was so frigidly cold while we were shooting. And the bug population was through the roof, that summer. It was just silly! The fact that we even survived at all is shocking. The fact that we came out of it with a movie that I really like is awe-inspiring.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Summer, Silly

  Source: collider.com

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