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• You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

  Mia Hamm

  Softball, Perseverance, Goal

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  the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, New York, Giants

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• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

  Lawrence Summers

  Jet Planes, Kind, Problem

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• This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Wine, Years, Oil

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• I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Heart, Past

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• I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Special, Trying

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• Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Joy

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• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Food, Eating Well, Giving

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Triumph, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.484, Routledge

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• To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

  Tim Tharp

  Matter, Tomorrow, Problem

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.232, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Hero

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• Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Moments, Demonstration

  Norman Vincent Peale (1987). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

  Ruth Park

  Morning, Sea, Sky

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• I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Numbers, World, Industry

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.7, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Congratulations, Ordinary

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• Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Life, Food, Eating Well

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

  Joe Murray

  Kidneys, Patient, Improvement

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• Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

  Lauren Kate

  Beautiful, Faith, Struggle

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.589, Delacorte Press

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• He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

  Neal Shusterman

  Islands, Engineering, Bridges

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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• Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

  Portia de Rossi

  Effort, Wish, Adjectives

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

  Viola Davis

  Believe, People, The End Of The Day

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• I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

  Clive Barker

  Gay, Irrelevance, Hard

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• There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

  Nicole Krauss

  Pain, Powerful, Emotion

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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