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  • Stevie Wonder: American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
  • It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
  • I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
  • The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
  • To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
  • When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
  • That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
  • I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
  • At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
  • An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
  • I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Patricia Neal A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Watterson That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Samuel Johnson All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Henry Miller Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Charles Morgan As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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  • Ben Gibbard At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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