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• We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

  James Brown

  Penn State, States

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• The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  Responsibility, Details, Fundamentals

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• I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

  Max Kozloff

  Memories, Objectivity, Perception

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Heart, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
  I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be
  missed!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Thinking, Novelists

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Taken, Chinese, Trying

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

  Clayton Christensen

  Perspective, Discipline, Marketing

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Planets, Deals, Explanation

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• For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

  Lynn Shelton

  Oddities, Diverse Society, Diversity

  "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, womenandhollywood.com.

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• In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Believe, School, Kids

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• We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause.  They are here to save our lives.

  Emma Thompson

  Nuance, Causes, Facts

  "Fictional character: Karen P. Eiffel". "Stranger Than Fiction", 2006.

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• Although she was ashamed to admit it now, the darkness in him had been the largest part of his allure. It was such an anomaly, a contrast to what she'd known from life. It had made him dangerous. Exciting. Sexy. But that was a fantasy. This was real. He suffered. And there was nothing sexy or thrilling about that. (Zsadists & Bella)

  J.R. Ward

  Sexy, Real, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1093, Penguin

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• In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia.

  Tom Brewer

  Mother, Children, Dark

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• The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Media, Venture, Incredibles

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• . . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

  Eavan Boland

  Fog, Giving, Relief

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Domestic Violence”, W. W. Norton

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• Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Angel, Giving, Perfection

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• From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

  Thandie Newton

  Running, Atheist, School

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• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

  Irene Khan

  Iran, Punishment, Usa

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• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Way, Impossible

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

  Jewel

  Artist, Able, Kind

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• One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Animal, Two

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.502, Library of America

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Perspective, Growth, Environmental

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  War, Fall, Son

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1915). “Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front”

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• Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Shirts, Charming, Difficult

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.474, e-artnow

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