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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  Gary Ross

  Gratitude, Book, Kids

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• If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Snow, Mountain

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Taken, Years, Rivers

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• Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

  Laini Taylor

  Evil, Faces, Stay True

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• Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Achievement, May

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• During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Kings, Inspiration

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

  Kanye West

  Song, America, Want

  "Kayne West Poses as Jesus, Says He's Addicted to Porn". www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2006.

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

  Robert Browning

  Time, Heaven, Done

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

  Kanye West

  Music, Art, Inspiration

  "Grammys: Kanye West Rails Against Beck, Explains Stage Rush, Bashes Show" by Ashley Lee , Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1962). “Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam”

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• The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

  Brian Aldiss

  Lying, Achievement, Apes

  1969 On space flight, in The Guardian.

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• It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

  Chris Gerdes

  Technology, Race, Car

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• The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Reading, Civilization, Reader

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• The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Class, Skulls

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.352

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• From snake - charmers, we are now a nation of mouse- charmers. Our youngsters are shaping the world with the click of a mouse with their feats in the IT sector.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Snakes, India

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• It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Purpose, Way

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• ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

  Julian Huxley

  Honesty, Memories, Discovery

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