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Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

Jimmy Carter

Responsibility, Power, Past

Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1025, Simon and Schuster

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I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Werner Herzog

Powerful, Cinema, Film

"Berlin Q&A: Director Joshua Oppenheimer" by Patrick Brzeski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 2, 2013.

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To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Yuri Gagarin

Dream, Space Flight, Cosmos

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But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

Kaskade

Life, Music, Kids

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Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing is an unprecedented vision, boldness and courage to fashion a new, promising, better future. Our beliefs, society, ways of life, institutions and future goals must be reviewed and reappraised fundamentally from scratch.

Robert Muller

Fashion, Goal, Missing

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The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.

Mel Karmazin

Choices, Mergers, Economy

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With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

Ralph Raico

Philosophy, Political, Granted

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Over the last year, the RNC has made an unprecedented effort to engage Hispanic communities across Florida and around the country. Here in Florida the RNC has hired a diverse group of Hispanic staffers who are growing and reaching out to our community, to them I offer my most sincere gratitude.

Anitere Flores

Country, Gratitude, Opportunity

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On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

Corey Taylor

Hero, Memorable, Unique

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The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?

Kofi Annan

Fighting, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

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I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

Kathy Griffin

Soccer, Cheerleading, Team

Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Keith Briffa

Nice, Simple, Reality

"Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

Alan Cohen

Letting Go, Freedom, Starting Over

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History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Alfred Kazin

Men, History, Historical

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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Inspirational, Time, Women

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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

Nathan Myhrvold

New York, Law, Everyday

"The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Daniel Hannan

Order, Forever, Economy

"Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.

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Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Alexander Haig

Giving, Waiting, President

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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

Zane Grey

Writing, Records, Spells

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Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

John Green

Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

Political, Facts, Surveillance

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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Al Gore

Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Thomas Frank

Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

"Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.

Gail Collins

War, Years, President

"Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 05, 2013.

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I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

Josh Fox

Thinking, People, Corporations

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

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