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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
Family
Strange
Wealth
Pride
Down
Older
Astonish
Month
Distinction
Citizens
Would
Per
Ten
Put
Aristocratic
Learn
Boy
Been
Dollars
Friendless
Uneducated
Candidate
Working
Amuse
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
Alan Moore
Good
Day
Me
You
Good Day
Will
Typewriter
Astonish
Laugh
Some
Cost
Give
Give Me
Having
Scene
Write
Emotional
Perhaps
Cry
Make
Readers
Clout
Them
Much
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?
Andy Dunn
Freedom
Me
Brilliant
Made
Men
Country
Gave
Fathers
Astonish
Secured
Magical
Only
Could
Also
How
Wives
Were
Legacy
America
Which
Themselves
Us
Confusing
Fighters
Founding
Founding Fathers
Slaves
The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.
Blase J. Cupich
Nature
People
Relating
Our
Astonish
Ways
Sign
Ourselves
Embrace
Push
Open
Buckets
Environment
Generous
Boundaries
New
Dump
American
New Ways
Ice
Capacity
American People
There is great work to be done, and the women will lead us. So I say, Astonish us with your genius. Inspire us with your creation. Work with one another. Endure the tribulations.
Caterina Fake
Work
Great
Women
Genius
Inspire
Will
Creation
Astonish
Say
Tribulations
Lead
Great Work
Another
Done
Endure
Us
Your
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
David Blaine
Truth
Own
Other
Our
Minds
Astonish
Ourselves
Only
Restrictions
Imposed
Capacity
Each
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Garet Garrett
Government
Great
World
Value
Own
Astonish
Paper
Paper Currency
Solvent
Purpose
Price
Doing
Did
Currency
Gold
Want
Fictitious
Paying
Spectacle
Need
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Mary Ritter Beard
Travel
Else
Meet
Astonish
Bizarre
Atlantic
Similarity
Nobody
Nobody Else
Go
Surprise
Wherever
Pacific
Us
Much
Across
Things
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera
Time
Great
Man
Light
Old
Will
Astonish
Dim
Never
Thus
However
Perpetually
Discoveries
Existence
Cease
May
Human
Forgotten
Being
Human Existence
Novelists
Novels
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
Timothy Noah
Me
Politician
Astonish
Never
Cheaply
Bought
Fails
How
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