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• For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

  Julie Garwood

  Angel, Duncan, Accomplished

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Bird, Trying, Midst

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• I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one receives : “Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost — but not quite — to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now without opening your lips say "Garoo".' And when you have done it they are not satisfied.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Thinking, Trying, Done

  "The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome".

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• Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

  Henry Miller

  Struggle, Might, Fluency

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Long, Able, Becoming

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that...particular...place.

  Christopher Paolini

  Bruises, Proud, Should

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1455, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Maturity, Childhood

  "Wilderness".

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• I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

  John Bell Hood

  Sacrifice, Bravery, Soldier

  John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Engineering, Doubt

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Evil, Laughing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sight, Done, Circus

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.236, Random House

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouraging, Nature, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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• Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Greatness, Fire

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Gymnastics, Hands

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Promise, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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• It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

  Robert Herrick

  Being Happy, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Memories, World, Lost

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.19, Dell

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• Maybe love was no match for ice...but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. Mothers lifted cars to save their children. And Piper was more than just a mortal. She was a demigod. A hero. The ice melted on her blade. Her arm steamed under Khione's grip. 'Still underestimating me,' Piper told the goddess. 'You really need to work on that.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Children, Hero

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

  Che Guevara

  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

  Susan Cain

  Warrior, Simple, Office

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Warrior, Attachment, Life And Death

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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