Best Unusual Wisdom
544 Unusual quotes by 468 unique authors
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Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the…
— Max De Pree
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The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.
— Robert M. Fresco
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I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
— Linda Moulton Howe
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both…
— Lloyd Alexander
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It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you…
— Dario Fo
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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for…
— Janis Karpinski
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We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there.…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most…
— Toby Young
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Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite…
— Peter Adamson
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Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
— Tim Burton
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I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known…
— Leni Riefenstahl
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'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What quality…
— Tommy Tenney
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I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite;…
— Lotte Reiniger
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I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
— Amanda Lindhout
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When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
— Subroto Bagchi
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Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make…
— Marcel Proust
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When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president…
— Gore Vidal
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It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship…
— Lin Yutang
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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…
— George Mikes
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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
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I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.
— Isabel Lucas
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Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay…
— J. William Fulbright
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