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"When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection."
"Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity."
"If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'"
"Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?"
"People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'"
"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."
"To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets"
"The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!"
"I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it."
"The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives"
"Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?"
"I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship"
"I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder."
"I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts."
"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all."
"You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any."
"Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast."
"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits."
"The weight of sadness was in wonder lost."
"Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs."
