#miracles

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. ↗

— Edward Young

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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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There are no miracles in agricultural production. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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