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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Perseverance, Successful, Quality

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• With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.

  Marco Arment

  Iphone, Trying, Delight

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• When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

  Rick Barry

  Basketball, Boys, Thinking

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• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  Tammy Bruce

  Independent, United States, Spirit

  "Tuesday's Tea Party revolution". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

  George Crumb

  Development, Instrumental Music, Idiom

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• My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mother, Believe, Married

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• In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

  Jeff Goodell

  Energy, Events, Coal

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• It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Style, World, Surprising

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Men, Passionate, Body

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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Careers, Progress, Downfall

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• As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

  Steven Johnson

  Eye, Ivory Tower, Innovation

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Player, Wish

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

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Males

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Children, Taken, Independent

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• One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

  David O. Russell

  Years, Age, Enchantment

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• The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

  Charles Sturt

  Believe, Years, Climate

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.1

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• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  D. V. Ager

  Science, Records, Easy

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• I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

  Joe Scarborough

  Political, Three, Sides

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• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

  Nicholas Stern

  Voice, Faces, Climate

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• What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

  Bob Taft

  Unique, Ohio, Cities

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• One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

  Geoffrey West

  Organization, Culture, Levels

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• I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

  David Yates

  Kings, Growing Up, Book

  "David Yates Talks HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Why He Isn’t Directing THE STAND, and His Al Capone Movie". Wizarding World of Harry Potter Interview, collider.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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• Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable sense of gratitude and awe. My mind quiets down and allows me to see more clearly the beauty of creation. And through that gratitude, the beauty of the universe is reflected back to the creator.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Gratitude, Nature, Soul

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