Unusual Quotes

• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Life Is, Accustomed

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• Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

  William Arthur Ward

  4th Of July, Generosity, Losing Yourself

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• We are a very, very unusual species.

  Richard Dawkins

  Species

  "Richard Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution". "NOW with Bill Moyers", billmoyers.com. 2004.

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• Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Mind

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Sky, Habit

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• I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

  Neil Finn

  Struggle, Order, Difficult Situations

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• The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Book, Excellence, Speech

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

  David Crystal

  Book, Fall, Skeletons

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• American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Two, World, Prosperity

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.120, Hoover Press

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• The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  America, Wages, Tandem

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Thinking, Fool, Virtue

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• What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

  David Plotz

  Media, Atlas, Digital

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Children, Nice

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• To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

  Robert Winston

  Challenges, Brain, Novelty

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• It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Past, Mind

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• Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Animal, Neighbor

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• You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Art, Style, Gains

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sleep, New Experiences, Rest Of Life

  "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

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• It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Kids, Mad

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• If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

  George Mikes

  Liars, Dirty, Stories

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• There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

  Desmond Morris

  Indulge In, Homosexuality, Circumstances

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

  Debra Dean

  Ifs

  Debra Dean (2009). “The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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