“ The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life. ”
- James Coburn- Copy
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“ Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities. ”
- Arthur Lynch- Copy
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“ Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
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“ My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
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“ On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress. ”
- Harry J. Johnson- Copy
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“ Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines — these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ 'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household… ”
- Richard Weaver- Copy
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“ The religion of Christ is not aspirin to deaden the pain of living, it is not a discussion group, nor a miraculous medal nor a piety, nor bingo for God. Not anything less than a joyous adventure of being Christ in a world still skeptical of him. ”
- John Monaghan- Copy
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“ To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job. ”
- Stan Lee- Copy
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“ A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway. ”
- Chris Van Allsburg- Copy
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“ To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner. ”
- Maxwell S. Coder- Copy
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“ The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness… ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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