"It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer."
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"The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity."
"Miracle me no miracles."
"Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles."
"Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
"What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do."
"They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines."
"Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer."
"There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves."
"As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue."
"The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle."