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• Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Creative, Humanity

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• If the American people had known the truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaida terrorist attack from the get-go - and yet lied and covered this fact up - Mitt Romney might very well be president. These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war - and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.

  Tom Fitton

  War, Isis, People

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.

  James Q. Wilson

  War, Views, People

  James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.

  John Cena

  Dream, Teacher, Real

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• I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Men, Thinking, Great Love

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• My wife and I replaced our nest with one on wheels. The RV became our new home. It's remarkable how homey it became and how quickly. It's obviously very condensed, and we do travel light, but when you think about what you really need, we have the basics - a bed, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a table to sit at to eat and write.

  David James

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creativity, Math, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Attitude, Next Day, America

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• The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.

  Wes Craven

  People, Stories, Realizing

  "Exclusive Interview: Wes Craven Talks Yeah Tv, Nightmare On Elm Street And His Future". Interview with Eric Walkuski, www.joblo.com. March 15, 2013.

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• For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Gestures, Virtue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Giving, Culture

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, People, President

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Book, Gay

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• There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

  Kevin Spacey

  Creativity, Technology, Two

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• ... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Tree, Information

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Hate, Two, Three

  Source: www.chud.com

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• If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.

  William Katt

  Beautiful, Summer, Vegetables

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• Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

  Martina Navratilova

  Lessons, Devotion, Cricket

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• I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Character, Long Ago

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.401, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

  William L. Shirer

  History, Drunk, Imagination

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• If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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