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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Astonishment Begun Deadline Final Find First First Time Four George Had Just Months Noticed Out Princeton Semester Senior Set Thesis Time Turned University Within

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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

~Celia Green

Topics: Astonishment Attack Facts Greatest Point Research Way

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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Applause Astonishment Bad Bit Feeling Give Know Lecture Little Little Bit People Realised Thousand Tumultuous Well Will You I Can

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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

~Ellis Peters

Topics: Astonishment Every Only Perpetual Spring

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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Astonishment Explanation Gateway Incomprehensible Only Separates Us Which

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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Astonishment Clock Different Difficult Hours Look Passed Poem See Start Three Totally Up Writing You Zone I Can

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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

~Florentijn Hofman

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I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

~George Combe

Topics: Air Alarm American Astonishment Avoid Catching Caused Cold Dread First Generally Gentlemen Had Hats Ladies Opened Put Some Then Widely Windows

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Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

~George Steiner

Topics: Also Am Astonishment Believe Bless Both Build Central Destroy Everything Forgive Hate Human Love Naive People Seems Speech To Love Torture Use Written You I Am

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