#astonishing

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. ↗

— John Malkovich

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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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