There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.
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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
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An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.
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Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
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When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.
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The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work
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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
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What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in...
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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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