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• I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Children, Wall

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

  Phil Ramone

  New York, Culture, Subculture

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• Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

  Steve Albini

  Suicide, Views, Long

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• The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

  Martin Schulz

  Hate, War, Emotion

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2012

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• We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

  Elif Safak

  Heart, Differences, Two

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, 2011.

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• Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Pain, Home, Contemplating

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• I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

  Bill Gates

  Fashion, Thinking, Perception

  "Drudge Hollywood: The Galaxy according to Gates" by Matt Drudge, www.wired.com. January 6, 1997.

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• A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

  James Fallows

  Sacrifice, Thinking, America

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• A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

  Goran Persson

  Irreplaceable, Valuable, Humans

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• Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Men, Murder

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.100, Transaction Publishers

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• Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Soul, Individuality, Fulfillment

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1974). “Christianity and Evolution”, Mariner Books

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

  Joe Greene

  People, Political, Remember

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

  Henri Bergson

  Order, Intuition, Analysis

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

  Rene Dubos

  Animal, Men, Kingdoms

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• It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

  Rene Dubos

  Mankind, Humans, Unprecedented

  "Beast or Angel?: Choosing to be Human".

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• When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

  Ugo Betti

  Confused, Mean, Self

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Men, Ducks

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

  Philip K. Dick

  Solitude, Different, World

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

  Nikki Sixx

  Kids, Parent, Do The Best

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

  Josiah Royce

  Men, Looks, Done

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

  Josiah Royce

  Strive, Needed, Various

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Indication, Uniqueness

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• Being great involves luck, and unique circumstances, and a lot of other forces beyond your control. You can’t just make it happen by working more or trying harder.
  There is an irony here, of course. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.

  Charles Wheelan

  Thinking, Luck, Trying

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