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• I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Rama

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• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.

  George H. Smith

  Ignorance, Imagination, Design

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

  J.H. Wyman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Educational, Believe, Media

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.

  John Irving

  Believe, Frustration, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.

  Christiane Northrup

  Girl, Mother, Pregnancy

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

  Black Francis

  Catholic, Stories, Lasts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

  Charlie Munger

  Way, Taxes, Avoiding

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

  Richard Dawkins

  Events, Investigation, Camps

  Source: inters.org

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• If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Moving, Sea

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Remember Mother Earth knows who these people are that are going to become the one heart. Really the better way to say it is one lotus. This place in the heart has always been referred to as the lotus. And when you find your way there, Mother Earth will completely take care of you and protect you and provide everything for you. Even though everything outside seems to be insane, it will be miraculous.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Heart, People

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• God wants us to walk in the miraculous!

  Michael Pfleger

  Want, Walks, Want U

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• If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Answers, Rare Occasion, World

  Source: inters.org

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• At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

  Mirabel Osler

  Heart, Garden, Belief

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• What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's always been there but it's become somewhat obscure to us given the stressful, fast-paced modern culture in which we live. I'm also inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

  Brad Willis

  Healing, Profound, Inspire

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

  Gloria Steinem

  Age, Five Senses, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Country, Jobs, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, Oil, Today

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.

  Bill Mollison

  Moving, Garden, House

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

  Dick Cavett

  Dream, Sleep, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.5, Henry Holt and Company

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• When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, People, Miracle

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

  DeVon Franklin

  Fall, Mean, Tree

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Countries can be redeemed. Entire cultures can be brought to "salvation". The land itself can be healed. ... And such miraculous change is brought about by one primary avenue: God working through the market place. ... The primary means to true revival, though, takes place first in the market place.

  Ed Silvoso

  Country, Mean, Land

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