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“The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.”

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Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.”

Doe Lasts Mystery Subjects Summer Winter Branches Sand Infinity Grain Speculation Daisies Snowflake Grains Of Sand

Author:William Mountford

“The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.”

“I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.”

Writing Kind Book Matter Play Use Romance Language Dark Mystery Subjects Strange Murder Plot Why Not Subject Matter Thrillers Harlequin

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.”

Ifs Should Mind Wells Doe Ideas Reason God Existence Mystery Subjects Strange Communication Eternity Prepared Calm Contemplation Seats Bows

Author:Nehemiah Adams

“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”

Men Should Reason Enough Dream Seems Grows Results Growing Up Mystery Subjects Revolution Men And Women Miracle Bread Reason Why Dictatorship Dictator Circus Servitude

Author:Aldous Huxley

“It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.”

Care Attention Mystery Subjects Conversation Disappointment Reform Health Care Health Care Reform

Author:Michael Pollan

“If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.”

People Ifs Levels Money Mystery Subjects Talent Particular Lows Economics Tasks Profession Manage Imperfect Protected Evident Low Level

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.”

Whole Religion Doubt Mystery Subjects Judgment Uncertainty Accurate Riddle Scrutiny Inexplicable

Author:David Hume

“The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.”

“Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.”

Different Song Choices Sound Mystery Subjects Keys Majors Infinite Instruments Response Etc Melody Minors Signatures

Author:Josh Garrels

“This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.”

Needs Imagination Fiction Mystery Subjects Horror Understood Aids Helpful

Book:Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.”

“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.”

Children Political Imagination Moral Support Mystery Subjects Missing Photography Adults Regard Distance Critics Males Awe Involving Sinking Nudity Pumps Enchantment Disapproval

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but in the course of working something shows up on the film or in the print that speaks to me. I can never predict when this will happen. However, when it does there is an excitement - there is the ecstasy of recognition. And this is one of the things that keeps me going.”

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Author:Ray Metzker