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  • Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
  • A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
  • 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
  • I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
  • The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
  • Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
  • In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
  • You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
  • In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
  • Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
    David Ben-Gurion
    Israeli politician, founder of and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886 - 1973)
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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • George Steiner Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Bill Watterson The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile 'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Carol Loomis A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
    Rob Cella
     
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Carl Karcher And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Campbell Brown Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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