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“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition

“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.”

Persons Feelings Action Pain Wonder Objects Praying Becoming Gratitude Findings Concerned Filled Constant Significance Ritual Better Person Charitable Becoming A Better Person

Author:Vanessa L Ochs

“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”

World Religion Wonder Magic Tradition Mark Constant Atmosphere Revelations Miraculous Taboo Profane Observance

Book:Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Source: Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.”

“My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.”

Sometimes Sports Prayer Wonder Trouble Please Let Me Constant These Days Swings Sometimes I Wonder Choppers

Book:The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

Source: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

“You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.”

People Reason Wonder Honest Color Battle Constant African American Accomplishment Accomplished Capability Stereotype Latino Presumption Evaluation

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.”

Action Wonder Evolution Yoga Breaths Structure Constant Depth Repetition Sequence Predetermined Great Freedom Minutiae Prana

Author:David F. Swensen