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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Asked Astonishing Black Few Go Green Holiday Me Paid Pleasure Pure Rather Seems Sent Weeks

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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

~Alexander Fleming

Topics: Advice Appearance Astonishing Been Chance Extraordinary Happening Influence Laboratory Lives May Neglect Never Offer Our Our Lives Out Point Trying Worker Would Young

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The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Astonishing Delta Flow Flows Great Rather River Sands Sea Sight Than Towards

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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Astonishing Best Everything Feel Happens Long Me Reader Short Short Story Something Story Want Way

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The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

~Andy Hobsbawm

Topics: Around Astonishing Consumer Digital Dumb Essentially Everyday Imagine Impossible Innovation Life Networks Objects Pace Products Social Social Networks Still Us Web Without

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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

~Anthony Holden

Topics: About Astonishing Been Changed Climate Five Getting How Last Now Somebody Subject Twenty Writing Years

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The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Astonishing Come Find Free Free Speech Freedom Internet Model People Political Say Sides Speech Thing

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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

~Ben Kingsley

Topics: Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence

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I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

~Ben Schott

Topics: Astonishing Back Belong Big City Each Everyone Evolution Fan Father Fond How Knew London Look Map Old Other Small Used Very You

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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

~Benjamin Haydon

Topics: Astonishing Common Doing Done Faculties Genius Greater Intensity Materials More Nothing Ordinary Refined Than Things Ways

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