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• I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Believe, Thinking, Parent

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• Honestly, Battlestar is a truly unique thing, and its hard for anything to step up to that. There arent often shows that are as good as that.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Steps, Step Up, Honestly

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• Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

  Julian Fellowes

  Powerful, Real, Views

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• Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Fun, Reflection, Opportunity

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• Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Fit, Individual

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

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• Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Taken, Tea

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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Role Models, Expectations

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Children, Selfish

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• Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, People, Able

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• A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Mean, Dancing

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• Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Memories, Identity, Faces

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• Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

  Judith Martin

  Knowing, Tragedy, Gone

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Class, Evil

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Culture, Easy

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• The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Doubt, Cherish, Mood

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying... We've shopped till we dropped alright, face down on the floor.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  People, Roles, Stuff

  "World’s Designated Shoppers Drop" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2008.

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• To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

  Edna Ferber

  Magic, Once In A Lifetime, Alive

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.5, Vintage

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Things In Life

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• In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.

  Charles Teo

  Mean, Different, Pioneers

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• I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

  George Brandis

  Art, Strong, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Miracle, Needs

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• The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mirrors, People, Age

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

  Han Suyin

  Thinking, Lovers, Illusion

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• It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Civilization, Creating, America

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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