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• Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

  Jim Lovell

  Loneliness, Moon, Oasis

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• Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Evolution, Reason

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

  Kevin Systrom

  Artist, Reality, Ideas

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• It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  Paul Goldberger

  Sadness, Delight, Matter

  Paul Goldberger (2014). “Why Architecture Matters”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, People, Manhattan

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

  Richard Rorty

  Discipline, Soul, Intellectual

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• The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

  Barnett Newman

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Facts, Morality

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Sea

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• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Art, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

  Cory Doctorow

  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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• My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

  Gabriel Macht

  Father, Stories, Actors

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

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• A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  People, Silence, Evolve

  FaceBook post by Gopichand Lagadapati from Jan 06, 2014

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• The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Feelings, Recognition, Mystery

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• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Amazement

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Iron, Watches

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• Steve Burton, I adore. He's got the overall picture. He's wise beyond his years. He's not overwhelmed, and he's not in awe. He's a gentleman. And a hunk.

  Leslie Charleson

  Wise, Years, Gentleman

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• I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic. The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one person, but to-day there are thousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants.

  Jacques Vallee

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Skills, Gloves, Language

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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 Inspiring, Credulity

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

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• I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Years, Mind, Want

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• Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Growing Up, Shoes, Clothes

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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