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• It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

  William H. Whyte

  Urbanization, Cities, Space

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

  Billy Beane

  Champions League, Play, Goal

  "Billy Beane leaves Moneyball behind to refocus on statistical truths" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Products that are remarkable get talked about.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Products

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• Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Blogging

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• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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• Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Winning, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.35, Penguin

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Cities

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• A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

  Dorothy B. Porter

  Black, Depth, Records

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• Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Adversity, Two

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.8, Pearson Education

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• It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Art, Nature, Self

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1982). “Haiku: Haiku”

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• From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Views, Mind

  G. I. Gurdjieff (1991). “Meetings with Remarkable Men”, p.30, Penguin

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• The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

  Margaret Starbird

  Swans, Voice, Roots

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• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Past, Example

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

  Jim Ramstad

  Strong, Character, Men

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• After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Men, Thinking

  "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest". Book by John Allan Wyeth, July 1, 1996.

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• Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

  F. F. Bruce

  Prayer, Attitude, Persistence

  Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.364, InterVarsity Press

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, Labels

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

  Derek Jacobi

  Fall, Years, Differences

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, 4th Of July, Pigs

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Ignorance, Science, Men

  Ernst Haeckel (1883). “The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny”

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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Country, Religious, Buddhist

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• It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

  Wilbur Smith

  Jesus, Men, World Religions

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• Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Greatness, Differences

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 06, 2015

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