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• For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Journey, Effort, Atoms

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• Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

  Rudolf Otto

  Dark, Rocks, Sea

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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• The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

  Hugh Walpole

  Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

  Robert M. Fresco

  Ocean, Sky, Earth

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• Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

  Johannes Tauler

  Self, Ignorant, Hens

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• There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Men, Quality

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

  Ernie Banks

  Thinking, Pitching, Today

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Dancing

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• Love has more depth as you get older.

  Kirk Douglas

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

  Tony Robbins

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 31, 2016

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Artist, Possessed

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Taken, People, Confusion

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.553, e-artnow

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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Despair, Reckless, Ripple

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• In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

  Jessi Colter

  Thinking, Relation, Feels

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• I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

  John Lurie

  Play, Paint

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• I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Buoys

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

  Bertrand Russell

  Essence, Feelings, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.9, Bertrand Russell

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• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Friendship, Doe

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• Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Keys, Roots, Long

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• We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

  Voltaire

  Long, Brain, Ontology

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1207, e-artnow

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