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“God is just a name for our wonder.”
“...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.”
“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held ...”
“Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.”
“A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.”
“Wonder is the basis of worship.”
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
“One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cos...”
“Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.”
“I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.”
“I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“No wonder can last more than three days.”
“A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!”
“Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.”
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
“It was back home that The Northern Lights cast these wondrous rainbows in the snow, and where Snugs used to play tag with the huge curtain of shining light that ran, even faster than the wind, acro...”
“The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.”
“What's seldom is wonderful.”
“The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.”
