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  • Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

    Lasts   Firsts   Middle  
    Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax
  • Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

    Ego   Ordinary   Crafts  
  • The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

    James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”
  • Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.

    Average   Growth   World  
  • I said it before and I will say it again, MS Dhoni has been simply exceptional. His captaincy has been India's biggest strength in high pressure matches. He has always been 'THE RIGHT MAN' to take India forward.

    Men   Ms Dhoni   India  
  • The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

    "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.
  • You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.

  • I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

    "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly, July 1, 2002.
  • The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

    Levels   Merit   Pioneers  
    George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.8, Courier Corporation
  • You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

    "Haile Gebrselassie bows to will of his people for one last hurrah". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
  • The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

    Envy   Soul   Mind  
  • Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

    Art   Reality   Choices  
    Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”
  • It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

  • If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

    Effort   Want   Results  
    FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 06, 2014
  • I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.

    Watches   Film   Should  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

    "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.
  • An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

    Susan Orlean (2010). “The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up”, p.13, Random House
  • Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

    "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.
  • When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

    Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”
  • We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  • To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

    Dream   Needs   Location  
  • Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  • For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

    Thinking   Self   Matter  
    Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.78, Counterpoint Press
  • At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

    Lying   Government   Law  
    "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.
  • People don't even recognize who the Founding Fathers of the United States were. They were exceptional human beings - when you signed the Declaration of Independence, that was a death warrant they signed their name to. You have to have courage to put your name on a death warrant against the most powerful nation in the world at that time. And yet, we didn't honor who they really were. They were deists. They lived an enlightened belief system.

    Source: lotusguide.com
  • For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

    Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

    Courage   Men   Self  
    David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.515, Simon and Schuster
  • It's the rough diamond that dictates what you can get out of a diamond. You can't say, "I'm going to make this," or, "I'm going to make that." It's nature. Whatever nature gives us, we explore and we build on. We can't create something that is not in the stone, so we take away as many imperfections as we can. Sometimes, you can't take them all away. But mostly, our cut, our polish, the life we put into the stones, the beauty that we bring out is exceptional.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power to accomplish remarkable feats and live an exceptional life is not defined by an individual's family, education, or occupation; it's a disposition of the heart. Unless it's suppressed, there is an innate desire to rise above the norm. I encourage you to step into the unknown, embrace the divine empowerment, and live your extraordinary life.

    Heart   Men   Age  
  • It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what I consider real in this field of music, Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it. Non-conceptual, non-exceptional, Everybody's either crime-related or sexual. For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel: Their time's limited, hard rocks too.

    Real   Rap   Dope  
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