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Tag Name "Astound" (12)

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Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
Donald Barthelme
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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Herbert Spencer
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain
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Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.
Ronald Reagan
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It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.
William James
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When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.
Daya Mata
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Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
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The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize. I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.
Nora Roberts
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One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves. I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.
Suzanne Bates