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This discretion astonishes me, for the theosophical society is filled with a lively spirit of propagandism.

"The quantity of exertion (which is no exertion to me), the amount of business (which I regard as nothing), that I go through sometimes astonishes myself.

" A corporate party-planner explains that potato bars, which feature "martini glasses filled with whipped mashed potatos and accompanied by an assortment of toppings," are declining in popularity, which astonishes me, because I'd never heard of such a thing in the first place.

He interrogates hostile (read "liberal") witnesses with a chilliness that astonishes congressional staffers.

Konig Master of Deceit It astonishes me that Ann Douglas, in "Psycho Dramas," her review of the Sam Tanenhaus biography of Whittaker Chambers, acknowledges that Chambers was right about everything, but still maintains the old liberal condescension for this perennially maligned figure.

It astonishes me that so many of the bright people in Silicon Valley are capable of understanding things like quantum tunneling and Boolean algebra but are incapable of understanding history or the future.

It often astonishes me that publishers--at whose door such shortcomings must be laid--can put out books that contain a huge amount of valuable information, then effectively deny access to it by providing, in the worst case, no index at all and, in many instances, an improverished index.

But I know what astonishes you, poor souls, blasted by the wind of poverty, and crushed by your patrons' pride: it is EQUALITY, whose consequences frighten you.

The quiet man who makes up his mind to take hold of "a hard bill to pass" often astonishes the natives by his ability to get results.

In the first place, this limit set to our knowledge of the objects which stimulate our sensations is only accepted without difficulty by well-informed [16]persons, it much astonishes the uninstructed when first explained to them.

So the merchant remembers prices, the politician other politicians' speeches and votes, with a copiousness which astonishes outsiders, but which the amount of thinking they bestow on these subjects easily explains.

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvellous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.



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