Exceptional Quotes
313 quotes by 271 authors
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Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every…
— Nick Cave
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The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam…
— Peter Gizzi
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Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their…
— Christiane Northrup
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a…
— Seneca the Younger
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Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives.…
— Bob Hayes
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
— John Charles Polanyi
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We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has…
— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
— Bertie Ahern
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The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market…
— Chris Roberts
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to…
— Steve Jobs
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes…
— Hermann Hesse
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Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services…
— Chuck Grassley
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The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of…
— Pierre Trudeau
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It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are…
— David First
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It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
— Paul Davies
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It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
— Ron Fournier
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