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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

~Abraham Lincoln

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If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Astonish Clout Cost Cry Day Emotional Give Give Me Good Good Day Having Laugh Make Me Much Perhaps Readers Scene Some Them Typewriter Will Write You I Can

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The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?

~Andy Dunn

Topics: Also America Astonish Brilliant Confusing Could Country Fathers Fighters Founding Founding Fathers Freedom Gave How Legacy Made Magical Me Men Only Secured Slaves Themselves Us Were Which Wives

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The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: American American People Astonish Boundaries Capacity Dump Embrace Environment Generous Ice Nature New New Ways Open Our Ourselves People Push Relating Sign Ways

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There is great work to be done, and the women will lead us. So I say, Astonish us with your genius. Inspire us with your creation. Work with one another. Endure the tribulations.

~Caterina Fake

Topics: Another Astonish Creation Done Endure Genius Great Great Work Inspire Lead Say Tribulations Us Will Women Work Your

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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

~David Blaine

Topics: Astonish Capacity Each Imposed Minds Only Other Our Ourselves Own Restrictions Truth

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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Astonish Currency Did Doing Fictitious Gold Government Great Need Own Paper Paying Price Purpose Spectacle Value Want World

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