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• The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

  Rudy Giuliani

  America, Enemy, Lessons

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• Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Inspiration, Ideas, Firsts

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• The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

  Maureen Dowd

  Ideas, American Exceptionalism, Exceptionalism

  "Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. September 20, 2008.

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• I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

  Georg Baselitz

  Monsters, Want, Tradition

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• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Psychosis, Sick

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Pay, Talent, Clarity

  "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".

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• Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

  Haruki Murakami

  Suicide, Heart, People

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.332, Random House

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• My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Kids, Parenting

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• "I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?"

  Richelle Mead

  Teacher, Brother, Coffee

  "Bloodlines". Book by Richelle Mead, August 23, 2011.

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• It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

  Nora Roberts

  Wells, Knows, Who You Are

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• ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

  Shannon Hale

  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

  Erica Jong

  Crazy, Ordinary World, People

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 13, 2012

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Position, Knows, Decades

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• My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.

  Ron Livingston

  Girl, Mother, Jobs

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

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• Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Character, Community

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

  Jenny Nimmo

  Reading, Sensations

  Jenny Nimmo (2011). “The Snow Spider Trilogy”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

  Albert Camus

  Race, Heaven, Cost

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.81, Vintage

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• There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Creativity, Cake, Details

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• Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

  Jim DeMint

  Christian, Country, Strong

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Smile, Kindness, Commitment

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• 'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Albums, Green

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• Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Gone, Answers, World

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

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• Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Math, Opportunity

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• There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Epidemics, People, Tipping

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• Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

  Eoin Colfer

  Lasts, Firsts, Middle

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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