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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. — Chuck Jones
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to… — Tom Clancy
The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And… — Unknown Author
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher — Dan Simmons
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual — Sebastian Coe
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it… — George Grosz
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from… — Fritz Kreisler
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer
... a blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play… — Billy Gibbons
... each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's… — Joe Satriani
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual… — Al Jarreau
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very… — Rudolf Hess
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in… — Marie-Louise von Franz
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose… — William J. Brennan
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian. — David Livingstone
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the… — Jon Meacham
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were… — Edward Coke
Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant… — Alan Greenspan
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for… — Robert Musil
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks… — Jack Canfield
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The… — Gunter Grass
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product.… — Marc Andreessen
Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's… — Frank Zane
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment:… — Eric Ries

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