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• Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic -- steeped in the Russian school but open to contemporary sources -- is ideal for this work and for our company, which, with our classical heritage and our passion for the modern, is perfectly suited to his distinctive dance vision.

  Karen Kain

  Dream, Passion, School

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• Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Self, Simplicity, Personality

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• There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

  Constance Hale

  Play, Ideas, Style

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• We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums direction. It is our most distinctive album to date, combining all our different tastes and styles into one.

  Stuart Price

  Song, Stars, Climbing

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• Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage goes to those who provide pleasure and enjoyment while maintaining the power. If functions are equated with cognition, pleasure is equated with emotion; today we want products that appeal to both cognition and emotion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Want, Today, Maintaining

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• There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Enormous, Contribution

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

  James Madison

  Government, Independence, Unions

  James Madison (1910). “The Writings of James Madison: 1819-1836”

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• There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

  Chris Stringer

  Fossils, Unusual, Modern

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Loneliness, Heart

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• The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Achievement, Sound

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• Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Years, Ideas, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.260, Penguin

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• Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

  Henri Matisse

  Organization, Trying, Sound

  Volkmar Essers, Henri Matisse (1993). “Matisse”, Taschen

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• For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Individuality, Style

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• You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

  Mark Schaefer

  Ubiquity, Needs, Delight

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• Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

  Margaret Visser

  Perception, Western Culture, Modern

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.276, Open Road Media

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Anne Enright: 'Love is a great punishment for desire'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

  Alison Gopnik

  Long, Childhood, Humans

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• I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Swings, Kind

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". Interview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Italian, Korean Food, Australia Day

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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• Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

  Ethel Merman

  Heart, Voice, Legends

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  Gary Numan

  Powerful, Hands, Voice

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

  Liev Schreiber

  New York, Beats, Hard

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