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• Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

  Jerry Rice

  Player, Guy, Technique

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Jerry Rice". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

  Demi Lovato

  Robots, Emotion, Capacity

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• Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Claims, Evidence

  "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, Chapter Ten: The Tawdriness Of The Miraculous And The Decline Of Hell (p. 143), 2007.

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• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  James Payn

  Humble, Opportunity, Oatmeal

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, America, President

  John Kerry's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

  Alan Sugar

  Memories, Ifs

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• Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Passion, Creativity, Men

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• I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Thinking, Feet

  "Are America's Best Days Behind Us?" by Fareed Zakaria, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 3, 2011.

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• Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Believe, Character, Past

  Victor Davis Hanson (2010). “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her.  If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

  Pietro Belluschi

  Blessing, Giving, Trying

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• There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's "Hurt" by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.

  Anton Corbijn

  Hurt, Emotional, Thinking

  "Anton Corbijn on 'Control'". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 11, 2007.

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• Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.

  Jessica Livingston

  Judging, Challenges, Working Together

  "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I said it before and I will say it again, MS Dhoni has been simply exceptional. His captaincy has been India's biggest strength in high pressure matches. He has always been 'THE RIGHT MAN' to take India forward.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Men, Ms Dhoni, India

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• In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Party, Thoughtful

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• Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

  Paul Stamets

  Environmental Health, Oysters, Mushrooms

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Pay

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

  Stella Young

  Morning, Lying, Names

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• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  Dan Winters

  Realization, Debt, World

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

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• It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

  John von Neumann

  Running, Effort, Understanding

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.618, World Scientific

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• Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

  Dan Hampton

  Leadership, Sports, Play

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• An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

  Robin Sharma

  Choices, Lucky, Excellent

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014

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• An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.

  Richard Branson

  Details, Littles, Company

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  Nick Cave

  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

  John Eliot

  Critics, Thinker, Making History

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.97, Diversion Books

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• Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.

  Northrop Frye

  Fall, Together, Special

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.412, University of Toronto Press

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