We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
quote by Benjamin Haydon
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
quote by Simon van der Meer
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
quote by Ben Kingsley
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
quote by John Bulwer
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It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
quote by Edith Nesbitt
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Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
quote by Placido Domingo
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Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
quote by Dinah Maria Mulock
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
quote by James Broughton
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
quote by Frederik Pohl
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
quote by Orville Wright
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Do not do strange acts merely for the sake of astonishing your friends.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
quote by Thomas A. Edison
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Crisp And Short And Stunning
that is
what it should be
people
are busy you know
and what they want
is something astonishing
in a small space
like a click of
the mouse
next!
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
quote by Charles Baudelaire
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
quote by Larry Wall
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
quote by Jacqueline Bisset
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
quote by Henry Adams
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