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• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Self, Credit

  "Greenspan Admits Free Market Ideology Flawed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 24, 2008.

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• In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Believe, Tragedy

  "Mandela's Aids speech: Excerpts". news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2000.

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• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  United States, Months, Dramatic

  "'Center for American Progress's New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference, November 25, 2003'". "Congressional Record: Volume 149, Part 23", 2008.

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• The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Moving, Opportunity

  "Liberty Was Also Attacked In Boston". www.thedailysheeple.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Accountability, Bills

  "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

  Ayn Rand

  Father, Men, Political

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• An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

  Russell M. Nelson

  Men, Missionary, Earth

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• I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Civilization

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

  Mark Rothko

  Needs, Unexpected, Revelations

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

  David Suzuki

  Challenges, Humanity, Global Warming

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.244, Greystone Books

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• As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

  Susan Rice

  Israel, Stronger, United States

  "Amb. Susan Rice, Rep. Mike Rogers discuss violence against Americans in the Middle East". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Levels, Speech, Censorship

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• We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... .
  This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Voice, America, New Day

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• When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Reality, Thinking, Expression

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• If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Differences, Repeats

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• We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.

  Sallie McFague

  Thinking, Religion, Agendas

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• The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

  Steve Buyer

  Teenage, Sacrifice, Past

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• If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

  Rachilde

  Pride, Men, Thinking

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• The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.

  James Madison

  Real, Reflection, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.173, Cambridge University Press

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• If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Republic

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• Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Ice, President

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.

  Chris Hayes

  Presidential, Three, Insult

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Routine, Diaries

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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