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• The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.

  Barbara Mertz

  Powerful, Voice, People

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• In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, Land, Excellence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

  Heather O'Neill

  Numbness, Self, Able

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Air, Joy, Substance

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• We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

  Kenzo Tange

  Identity, Mobility, World

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• Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Personality, Ordinary, Astronaut

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• Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Perfect Parents, Needs

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Perfect, Mind

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

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• At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

  Peter Farb

  Pay, Sacred, Groups

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

  Max Lerner

  Struggle, Men, Religion

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• Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Order

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

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• It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

  Richard Lovelace

  Spiritual, Roots, Discipline

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Brain

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Hymns, Three

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

  Craig Silvey

  Superhero, Superpower

  Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.52, Random House

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• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.114, Vintage

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• Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.

  Tracie Peterson

  Way, Firsts, Steps

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)”, p.92, Bethany House

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• Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

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• Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

  William Joyce

  Heroism, Germany, Belief

  William Joyce (2013). “Twilight Over England”, p.66, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

  Manly Hall

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.123, Penguin

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• We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

  Christopher Dawson

  Imperfect World, Long, Evil

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• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Order, Two

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• I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Growing Up, School

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• The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Waiting Rooms, Hands, Superhero

  Source: www.pbs.org

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