“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.”
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Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
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“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.”
Jesse Owens (1913–1980) American track and field athlete
On having his world records beaten
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
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Dean Koontz (1945) American author
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Roger Stone (1952) American lobbyist
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996, Bondage, p.15
“For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.”
The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
On her four years stay in Japan from March 1916, quoted in Japan (1916- 1920) http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart5.htm