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• Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

  Reggie Watts

  Technology, Mergers, Tools

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Country, Memories, Father

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• It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

  Marc Anthony

  Want, Morbid, Fame

  "Marc Anthony keeping mum on wedding". www.today.com. June 8, 2004.

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• In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Air, Self, Perfect

  George H. Scithers, P. D Cacek, H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction”, p.143, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Vision, God's Faithfulness

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

  Thomas Crum

  Frustration, Irritation, Joy

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  New Beginnings, Stories, Short Story

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• Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

  Blake Michael

  Mixing, Application, Built

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• My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

  Bill Gates

  Understanding, Disease, Facts

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Teaching, Ideas, Giving

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• I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Thinking

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

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• To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

  David Mitchell

  Boredom, Judging, Fool

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.40, Random House Group

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• When you cook, you never stop learning.
  That's the fascination of it all.

  James Beard

  Cooks, Never Stop Learning

  James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Lying

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

  Vern Poythress

  Irrational Numbers, World, Mystery

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Wall, Taken, Eye

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• But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Spring, Taken

  "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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• I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Stars, Hate, Moths

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• Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Use, Rooms

  "North and South".

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• I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Emptiness, Longing

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• I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

  Jane Smiley

  Romance, Categories, Not Friends

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.164, Anchor

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• I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.

  Glenn Hughes

  Insanity, Soul, Bending

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• When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Littles, Tiny

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• Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Dream, Growing Up, Adults

  "How Would Aliens Fare Against Dinosaurs? Barry Sonnenfeld Aims To Find Out" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. May 10, 2011.

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