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A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread... is not always about what the patent is like, or what the factory is like - it's about can you get your idea to spread, or not.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends can be dangerous. If you want to avoid them on these grounds, be my guest. But I wonder what your life will then be like.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

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.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle.

Being on "Top Chef" opens a lot of doors and gives you a wider audience than you may have had before. It was super-scary when I first finished the show, having no idea what to expect and wondering why my Facebook was blowing up.

But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?