#mysterious

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. ↗

— Amos Oz

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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