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• Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, My Best Friend, Mixtures

  "Wrestling with Diane Arbus" by Germaine Greer, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Accountability, Political, Politics

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

  Julian Baggini

  Cosmos, Failing, Fractions

  "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

  Jerry Doyle

  People, Brain, Age

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• If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

  Alex Kapranos

  Teenager, Fans, Feels

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

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• My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Hero, Careers, Guy

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

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• The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.

  Thomas Berry

  Growing Up, Commitment, Profound

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.166, Crown

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• Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Awe And Wonder

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Wife, Cry

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• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Relaxation, Excellence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable sense of gratitude and awe. My mind quiets down and allows me to see more clearly the beauty of creation. And through that gratitude, the beauty of the universe is reflected back to the creator.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Gratitude, Nature, Soul

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• Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Goal, Way, Good Intentions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Essence, Bird

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 18, 2015

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• A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Depressing, Humble, Self

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• Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Secret Daily Teachings”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Missing, May, Deserving

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2015

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• Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

  Saint Augustine

  Depth, Looks, Littles

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• We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, World, Physics

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• I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder or Chris Nolan, it's a privilege to do this and I've never lost the awe, the awe factor of just going in and watching peoples reactions to what you've spent, in a lot of cases, years working on. That's a good way to put it, I love what I do and it's a privilege to do it.

  Thomas Tull

  Years, People, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

  Rick Yancey

  Art, Way, Never Forget

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Kids, Remember, Inspired

  "Lindsey Vonn On Olympic Gold". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 19, 2010.

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• A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

  Robert Johnson

  Spring, Cutting, Psychological Health

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• And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.

  Arthur Machen

  Secret, World, Mystery

  Arthur Machen (1951). “The Autobiography of Arthur Machen”, London : Richards Press

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