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Tag Name "Mystery" (1767)

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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
Anaxagoras
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Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
Charles Caleb Colton
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
Andy Rooney
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There can be no more reliable authority on earth than God's Word, the Bible. This timeless, trustworthy source of truth holds the key that unlocks life's mysteries. It alone provides us with the shelter we need in times of storm.
Charles R. Swindoll
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
J. Michael Straczynski
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If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.
Herb Kelleher
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No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.
Colin Firth
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
Rumi
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Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries.
Josh Lanyon
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It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.
Kristen Wiig
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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.
Liana Liberato
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If you ask him: What is silence? he will answer, It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice! If you ask: What are the fruits of silence? he will say: They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.
Roger Deakins
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Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.
Shantideva
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Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.
Herman Melville
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
Adyashanti
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
Raymond Chandler
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Wonder is retained by wise pondering.
Ravi Zacharias
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
Ann Brashares
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Some things will always remain a mystery at this level of consciousness, and it is right that they should. So do not try to solve all the mysteries. Give the universe a chance. It will unfold itself in due course. Enjoy the experience of becoming.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
Dale Carnegie
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