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• Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Essence, Knowing, Way

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• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Healing, People, Generations

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.

  Anthony Giddens

  Real, Risk, Quality

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.126, John Wiley & Sons

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• You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.

  John Leguizamo

  Character, Play, Example

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Challenges

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Real, Moving, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Rivers, Personality

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• A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

  George Santayana

  Character, Greatness, Men

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

  George Edmund Street

  Country, Character, Thinking

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• This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation.

  Leon Pinsker

  Israel, Elements, Problem

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• It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Simple, Player, Trying

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?

  Bill Taylor

  Education, Games, Hollywood

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• Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

  Richard Harris

  Successful, Politician, Cowardice

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• My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me

  Gauri Khan

  New Experiences, Creating, Style

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• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself, Character, Giving

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• Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Giving, Suffering

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• The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Normal, Excess, Size

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• Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.

  Hans Heysen

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

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• An absolutely different and distinctive character.

  George Edmund Street

  Character, Different

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• We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

  Theophrastus

  Nature, Character, Views

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• A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Children, Men

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• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Distance, Character

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

  Dave Barry

  Class, Two, People

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• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Creativity, Careers

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• Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Lying, Book, Details

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