Quotes with magnificence

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  • Carl Sagan A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • A. J. Liebling Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • James Thomson I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Richard J. Needham I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alan Cohen The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alan Cohen We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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