Exceptional Quotes - Page 8

• Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Scientist, Authority, Should

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• We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Mean, Patriotism, World

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• The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

  Chuck Grassley

  Successful, Unlimited Potential, People

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• Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

  Agnes Repplier

  Believe, Men, Grace

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

  Samuel Smiles

  Opportunity, Greatness, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.

  Henry Blodget

  Cat, Successful, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.

  Nick Clegg

  Hands, Europe, Issues

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• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  Bat for Lashes

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Exception To The Rule, Way

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• It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

  Marjorie Hillis

  Giving, Matter, Facts

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• In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

  Maud Adams

  Sweden, Actresses, Film

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• In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Culture, Facts

  "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

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• To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Book, Desire, Identity

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• People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Succeed, Made

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• For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Too Late, Fifty, Imagine

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”

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• Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

  James D. Watson

  Motivational, Hands, Tunnels

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• America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Land, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Struggle, Taken

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.

  David Bezmozgis

  People, Kind, Mass

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Summer, Writing, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

  Alan Watts

  Space, People, Water

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• The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  Steve Jobs

  Boys, Differences, Average

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• I only eat meat, if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

  Bryan Fuller

  Nice, Home, Meat

  Source: collider.com

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• Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.

  Wes Fesler

  People, Effort, Can Do

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