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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another,… — Criss Jami
Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as… — George Bernard Shaw
At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds… — Arjun Rampal
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in… — Felix Frankfurter
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I… — Billy Bob Thornton
Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when… — David First
Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really… — Keri Russell
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed… — Ron Fournier
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced,… — Viktor E. Frankl
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the… — Viktor E. Frankl
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the… — Neil Gaiman
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. — Henry Louis Gates
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then… — Alison Gopnik
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the… — Gail Collins
When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no… — Harry Connick, Jr.
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law… — Ted Cruz

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