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• Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mother, Hate, Son

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.427, Simon and Schuster

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• Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

  Nick Tosches

  Book, Passion, Should Have

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• When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Impossible, Uniqueness

  "Show and Tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2001.

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• Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Blue, America

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• A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Voice, Important, Sound

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Views

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

  Guy Ritchie

  Inspirational, Humble, Pie

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• I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.

  Royal Robbins

  Jobs, Climbing, Next Day

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• My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Being Yourself, Inspiration

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• It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.

  Paula Poundstone

  Wish To Die, Brain, Trying

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• Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Blessing, Florida

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• Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual.  His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound.  And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection.  People were never the same after listening to him….The people who followed Him were unique in their generation.  They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.  The world has never been the same.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Acceptance, Simple

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• We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Thinking, Degrees

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

  Carol Leifer

  Minorities, Facts, Advantage

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• I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.

  Gus Malzahn

  Believe, Blessed, Ability

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• Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation, Quality

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• To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Profound, Inspire

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• It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

  Chris Ware

  Comforting, Suffering, Doe

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Expression, Creating

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• Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Reality, Three

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• As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

  Judy Biggert

  Discovery, Creating, Office

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• The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Reality

  Nicki Verploegen Vandergrift, Thomas Merton (1995). “Meditations with Merton”, Triumph Books

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• I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

  Georg Baselitz

  Simple, Important, Woods

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

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• Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

  Nick Rahall

  Wilderness, Absence, Characteristics

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