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• Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship—a language that transcends words.

  Dalia Sofer

  Dog, Boys, Voice

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• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Past, Details

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Cities

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Rational, Apprehension

  David Brainerd (1829). “Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians”, p.480

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

  Natalie Portman

  Creating, Support, Networking

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• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, Writing, Jumping

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Memories, Heart, Years

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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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• 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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• Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Comment, Contrary, Unnatural

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Fundamentals, Physics

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• Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Arbitrary, Pressure, Can Do

  James R. Schlesinger (1968). “Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis”

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• Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

  Leonard Maltin

  Beautiful, Men, Two

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• I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

  Stewart Lee

  Creative, Confusing, Thrill

  Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Sight, Scales, Ethereal

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.49, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

  Tommy Tune

  Meaningful, Stars, Media

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• Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.

  Dale Purves

  Book, Illustration, Mind

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• There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  Fiona Shaw

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Years, Giving

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