Unique Quotes - Page 39

• There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pride, Animal, Self

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Race, Civilization

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

  A. R. Rahman

  Spiritual, Journey, Challenges

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• I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

  Rita Rudner

  Needs, Individual, Adore

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Light

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• Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Different, Circumstances

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• To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Flames, People

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.

  Marianne von Werefkin

  Art, Soul, Feelings

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• I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong Women, Believe, Empowering

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• One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

  W. H. Auden

  Reality, Two, Perspective

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• If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Special, Scare

  Press conference with Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and David Gordon Green, www.moviesonline.ca. April, 2014.

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• I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Careers, Giving, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

  Big Sean

  Tacky, Lines, Kind

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Europe, World, Our Society

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Cogs, Lines

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

  Lisa Stone

  Thinking, Littles, Institutions

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• Being unique is highly over rated.

  Rob Payne

  Being Unique

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

  Samantha Abeel

  Weakness, Precious Gifts, Packages

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• I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didnt fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

  John Cena

  Children, Kids, Self

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• You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Careers, Actors, Puppets

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• Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.39

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• In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.

  Merlin Stone

  Egypt, Isis, Land

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.12, Doubleday

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• Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

  Tom Rath

  Children, Parent, Individuality

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

  Bo Derek

  Expression, Looks, Faces

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