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• Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mean, Australia, Circus

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• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Happy Accidents, Transparency, Rational

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Flow

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

  Seth Godin

  Criticism, Way, Serious

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.51, Penguin

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• Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

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• The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

  Ashley Montagu

  Book, Good Book, Euphemism

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  The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

  Simon Sinek

  Team, People, Together

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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• The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Blessing, Giving

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• My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiration, Favorite Words, Effort

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  The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

  Martin Luther

  Drink, Fountain, Thirst

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Moments, Leap, Feels

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• Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

  Ian Holm

  War, Eye, Doom And Gloom

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• The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Three, Judgment

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• Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

  Aristotle

  Knowing, Missing, Truth Is

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• At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.

  David Berlinski

  Science, Achievement, Way

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

  Conrad Hyers

  Family, Children, Irritation

  Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Integrity, Simple

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• It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fiction, World

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.

  Thomas Addison

  Change, Heart, Skins

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• We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

  Tommy Franks

  Views, Iraq, Today

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• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

  Max Baucus

  Unique, Hymns, Political

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• [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

  G. H. Hardy

  Inspiration, Science, Firsts

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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