Rare Quotes

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To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless… — Kodo Sawaki
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. — Dick Costolo
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare. — Charlie Munger
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot… — Allen Tate
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and… — James Gleick
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror. — Konrad Adenauer
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it… — Ben Bova
Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively. Actually, it would… — Thomas Gordon
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. — Bobby Short
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent… — Jay Smith
It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with. — Matthew Ashford
Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity,… — Tony Juniper
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. — David R. Ellis
Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy. — Paul Reps
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,… — Raquel Cepeda
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process,… — Joko Beck
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An… — James Joseph Sylvester
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. — Juvenal
One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't… — Malcolm Forbes
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind. — Laozi
Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. — J. Oswald Sanders
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker

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