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• Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

  Homer

  Baby, Population, Letters

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• A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

  Jacques Barzun

  Heaven, Care, Requirements

  "A Loyalty Oath for Scholars". The American Scholar, Summer 1951.

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• When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Money, Men, Thinking

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

  Jay Leno

  Iowa, Years, Healthy

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• There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Shields, Specialists

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.89, Spectra

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• I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic is a medium. I do that occasionally but my specialty is spiritual pasts.

  James Van Praagh

  Spiritual, Past, Psychics

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

  David Chang

  Teaching, Giving, Foundation

  "David Chang On American Cuisine, Vanishing Seafood, Cooking At Home & Seasoning Properly". Interview with Colin Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Balls, Ping Pong

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• Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Voice, Gold, Veins

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Knowledge, Order, Enough

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• If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Strong, Player, Ideas

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• love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Europe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

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• I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Simple, Eyebrows

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• I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Impossible situations are our specialty.

  Richelle Mead

  Impossible Situations, Impossible, Situation

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• Although I get a lot of specialty services like wraps, scrubs, and mustache removal, my favorite is the simple manicure/pedicure. They work on your hands and feet at the same time while you sit in a vibrating chair. I call it the sorority girls version of a threesome.

  Jen Lancaster

  Girl, Simple, Hands

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• I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

  Janet Evanovich

  Hate, Car, Wrecks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.626, Bantam

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• I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Doctors, Paris

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• Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

  Hiro Mashima

  Tails, Fairy, Breaking Things

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• There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

  David Viscott

  Differences, Shining, Up To You

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• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, School, Kids

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  Rachel Nichols

  Heart, Mind, Special

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• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Latin, Up Early, America

  "Your Interview: Anthony Bourdain". CBC News.ca reader questions, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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• Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

  Hugh Jackman

  Twists, Meals, Breakfast

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• There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

  William Osler

  Men, Medicine, Important

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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