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• Reading to small children is a specialty.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Reading, Small Child

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• If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Strong, Player, Ideas

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• There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

  David Viscott

  Differences, Shining, Up To You

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• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Way, Study

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• What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

  Mehmet Oz

  Eye, Doctors, Years

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• There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

  William Osler

  Men, Medicine, Important

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  Rachel Nichols

  Heart, Mind, Special

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• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, School, Kids

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

  Hugh Jackman

  Twists, Meals, Breakfast

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• Although I get a lot of specialty services like wraps, scrubs, and mustache removal, my favorite is the simple manicure/pedicure. They work on your hands and feet at the same time while you sit in a vibrating chair. I call it the sorority girls version of a threesome.

  Jen Lancaster

  Girl, Simple, Hands

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• I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

  Janet Evanovich

  Hate, Car, Wrecks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.626, Bantam

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• Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

  David Chang

  Teaching, Giving, Foundation

  "David Chang On American Cuisine, Vanishing Seafood, Cooking At Home & Seasoning Properly". Interview with Colin Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Shields, Specialists

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.89, Spectra

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• The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

  Jay Leno

  Iowa, Years, Healthy

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• Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.

  Paul Simon

  Kings, Communication, Boys

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• When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Money, Men, Thinking

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

  Jacques Barzun

  Heaven, Care, Requirements

  "A Loyalty Oath for Scholars". The American Scholar, Summer 1951.

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• It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.

  Saul Bellow

  Pride, Rights, Class

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.62, Odyssey Editions

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• Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Ideas, Diversity

  "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

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• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  Vagit Alekperov

  People, Giving, Advice

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• Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

  Homer

  Baby, Population, Letters

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• When we have laws that compartmentalize medical information, and when we have paper systems that compartmentalize medical information, you sometimes have a doctor who understands his specialty and is terrific on your kidneys, but he doesn't understand the totality of who you are.

  Newt Gingrich

  Doctors, Law, Paper

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Knowledge, Order, Enough

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• What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Debauchery, Madness

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan

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• Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

  Hiro Mashima

  Tails, Fairy, Breaking Things

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