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I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Am Billboards Buildings City Creativity Day Dazzling Design Discovery Encounter Every Every Single Day Everyday Exhilaration Inspired Just Objects Our Park Past Same Sense Single Single Day Store Streets Use Walk Windows I Am

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

~Basil Bunting

Topics: Anything Anything Else Confusing Confusion Destructive Else Exhilaration Explain Infectious Lifetime Moment Mystic Poetry Psychology Purchases Terms Try

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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Able Ancestors Exhilaration Freedom Hands Lives Our Own People Should Swim Take Thames Then Want

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As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work that characterized the CIA when it was young, I wonder if it might not be better to speak and think in terms of restoring its culture.

~Charles Mccarry

Topics: Better Characterized Cia Culture Done Exhilaration Good Good Work Having Intellectual Man Might Old Old Man Pleasure Remembers Restoring Speak Terms Think Who Wonder Work Young I Wonder

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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

~Charles Studd

Topics: Attempting Christ Christians Desperate Exhilaration Expecting God Great Great Things Real Same Things Ventures

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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Always Behind Best Craft Create Curtain Even Exhilaration Feeling Finally How Illusion Just Liked Magic Now Poetry Poets See Starting Tested Tried Used Wonderful Wonderful Feeling

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The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

~David S. Rose

Topics: Accomplishment Agony Challenge Control Dedication Entrepreneurial Exhilaration Extraordinary Failure Life Perseverance Powerlessness Sacrifice Satisfaction Ultimately Work

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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Accept Exhilaration Followed Initial Living Rush Soon Truths Us

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I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Almost Another Back Chance Exhilaration Feel Feeling Go Got Harder Homecoming Irritation Look Maybe Never Nostalgia Now Right Simply Try Well You I Feel

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Achievements Century Civilization Contemplate Daring Energy England Exhilaration Face Few Latter Material Part Pioneer Practical Sense Skill Splendid Technical Too Transforming Were Which Without

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