Unprecedented Quotes - Page 6

• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  Art Garfunkel

  Ice Cream, Joy, Cherries

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• Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Communication, Technology

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• Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Lying, Deep Water

  "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. June 2, 2010.

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• In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Civilization, Choices, Way

  "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.

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• In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

  Carl Sagan

  Giving, Hearing, Willing

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.195, Penguin

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• Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

  Christian Rudder

  Fighting, Data, Age

  Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.16, Crown

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• Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

  Robert Mankoff

  Believe, Opportunity, World

  "Reality check: for real sustainability, some economies will need to shrink" by Erik Assadourian, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2014.

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• Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

  Dick Taylor

  Organization, Automation, Achieve

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• It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

  Rene Dubos

  Unique, Mankind, Humans

  "Beast or Angel?: Choosing to be Human".

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• Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

  Hannah Arendt

  Ideas, Events, Distinguished

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• Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

  Michael Enzi

  Effort, Having Fun, Dollars

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• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

  Jeff Goodell

  Energy, Events, Coal

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Rights, Years, Two

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• Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Technology, Simple

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• American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

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• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Military, Night, Israel

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• In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

  Denis Fahey

  Fashion, War, Israel

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• For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Opportunity, Years

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo goes toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Car

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• It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Government, Years, Two

  "Top Obama Middle East adviser Dennis Ross stepping down" by Alex Mooney, www.cnn.com. November 10, 2011.

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• We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

  Allison Williams

  Thinking, Self, Dresses

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• Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Tears, Growing

  "Beck: 'The Violent Left Is Coming To Our Streets' 'To Smash, To Tear Down, To Kill, To Bankrupt, To Destroy'". Values Voter Summit, www.mediamatters.org. October 08, 2011.

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• Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Buckets, Transformation

  "Marilyn Manson: Man That You Fear". Interview with Dan Epstein, www.revolvermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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