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“The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.”

Self Whole Independent Notion Dear Myth Islands Isolated Marvelous Autonomous Enterprising

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.”

Men Littles Persons Choices Marriage Wife Imagine Feet Fool Smart Men And Women Majority Seeds Contentment Pairs Void Marvelous Handsome Womb Prudence Thighs Troll Buttocks

Author:Edward Dahlberg

“How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”

Men World Humans Whole Hands Past Purpose Brain Blood Century Honest Tears Divine Pure Angel Built Fingers Saint Cynical Marvelous Splendid Reproach

Author:Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

“When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.”

Way Children Hope Situation Plans Work Out Trust In God Marvelous Having Hope

Author:Barbara Johnson

“Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.”

World Humans Whole Wanted Nature Wonder Alive Stones Essence Plant Marvelous Steep

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world.”

“The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.”

Source: THE MEANING OF EDUCATION AND OTHERS ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES

“Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.”

Inspirational Children Baby Invention Marvelous Newborn Newborn Child

Book:Remembrance Rock

Source: Remembrance Rock

“In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly.”

Heart Children Hands Earth Fall Universe Design Fingers Marvelous Sparrows

Author:Toyohiko Kagawa

“The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.”

Whole Universe Study Degrees Marvelous Linguistics Marvelous Things

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.”

Feels Should Body Lines Rooms Talking Havens Wall Presses Architecture Your Body Concrete Marvelous Mold Straight Lines Talking Back

Author:Philip Johnson

“I think I did marry a marvelous man.”

Thinking Men Marvelous

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.”

Way God Worst Tragedy Triumph Glorious Marvelous

Author:Joseph Stowell

“I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.”

Stories Challenges Marvelous Wwi

Author:Anne Perry

“If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.”

Ifs Feels Persons Bigs Powerful Company Poverty Records Economic Riches Peter Marvelous Record Companies Gabriel

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.”

World Marvelous

Author:Rupert Everett

“We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.”

Feels Nature Natural Animal Disgusting Investigation Marvelous Natural Things

Author:Aristotle

“Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.”

British Cynicism Marvelous Patronizing Californians

Author:Alex Kingston

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