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• Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also is twofold, by water and the Spirit; the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body; the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Mean, Water

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• Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

  Louise Bates Ames

  Parenting, Years, Games

  Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg (2012). “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant”, p.1, Dell

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• (The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

  Thomas Cahill

  Reality, Thinking, Views

  "Thomas Cahill's mission: to restore the West's genealogy" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 27, 1998.

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• The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

  Dick Morris

  Presidential, Political, Vices

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  Uwe Boll

  Dark, House, Easier

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• In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.

  Stephen J. Dubner

  Funny, Thoughtful, People

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• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Ideas, Form, Process

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• Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

  Cale Yarborough

  Sports, People, Appreciate

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• It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

  Harry Nilsson

  Watches, Bunnies, Clubs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

  Charles Kettering

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

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• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole.

  Tom Weiskopf

  Golf, Unique, Play

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• I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.

  Cindy Sherman

  Distance, Opposites, Ideas

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• I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

  David Suchet

  Growing Up, Meditation, Guru

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

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• I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Intuition, Premonition, Supernatural Powers

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• There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Stars, Dna

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• A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Christmas, Oysters

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

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• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  Balthazar Getty

  Kids, Young

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• I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

  Tina Yothers

  Drama, People, Experience

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• I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

  Erika Christensen

  Female, Body, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  Natalie Cole

  Idols, Culture, Annie

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• Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

  Alina Bronsky

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

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• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  Octavia Spencer

  Hollywood, Way, Beacons

  "OTRC: Oscars 2012: Octavia Spencer backstage: I hope I can be 'beacon of hope'". abc7.com. February 26, 2012.

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