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• The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Hands, Way

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.362, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

  Robert Menzies

  Party, Contempt, Treated

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• The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Corporations, Efficiency, Bigs

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• To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Party, Order, Years

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• On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Running, Hands, Majority

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.121, Verso

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• India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Religious, Land, Ideas

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• You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.

  Bernard Lewis

  Democracy, Election, Defeated

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• Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Thoughtful, Men, Race

  "Is the Threat of a Nuclear Iran Fallen on Deaf Ears?". www.beliefnet.com.

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated so many of our international treaty obligations, our Constitution, our domestic statutory laws, and has been responsible for ordering and condoning heinous human rights violations. We need to draw the line.

  Rocky Anderson

  Thinking, Rights, Law

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• It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.

  Skip Horack

  Book, Voice, Vision

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• It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

  Lady Gaga

  Loyalty, Blessed, Commitment

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.

  Anthony Head

  Thinking, Talent, Consistent

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• Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

  Michael Pare

  Political, Speech, Conservative

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• We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Together, Rough Times, Can Do

  "Fictional character: Tim". "About Time", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Liars, Kissinger

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Healing, Simple, Stories

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• The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

  Jack Goody

  Imagination, Sound, Late

  Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

  K. W. Jeter

  Heart, Thinking, Numbers

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• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Strong, Philosophy, Book

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• Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

  Peter Lovesey

  Real, Pages Turning, Plot

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• Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Men, Practice, May

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• Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.

  Carol Edgarian

  Crazy, Cutting, Sea

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