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• The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Men

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• NATO could be obsolete, because - and I was very strong on this, and it was actually covered very accurately in the New York Times, which is unusual for the New York Times, to be honest - but I said, they do not focus on terror. And I was very strong. And I said it numerous times.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, New York, Focus

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."

  Eva Green

  Mad, Knows, Bits

  "Eva Green Talks Bond, Burton, and Her Decision to Work with Roman Polanski". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2016.

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• The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along the Watchtower" sound like a Disney tune, hosts an old-school radio show, and turns up in some unusual places, like ads for Chrysler and Victoria's Secret.

  Jay Michaelson

  School, Dark, Roots

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

  George Brandis

  Government, New Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.

  Alex Timbers

  Believe, Rocks, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

  William Kristol

  President, Bills, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Strange, Milkshakes

  Source: app.longform.org

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• It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

  Darren Hardy

  Achievement, Guy, Crowds

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

  George Biddell Airy

  Science, Moon, Two

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• Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.

  Anthony Standen

  Change, Science, Men

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• Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a cord through the window and plugged the PA and amps into that and played right in the courtyard. It was an incredible experience. It was just local kids.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kids, Valleys, Band

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it.

  Lena Dunham

  Strong, Thinking, Unusual Things

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

  James Franco

  Character, Practice, Addiction

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary] Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Unique, Special, Needs

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Years, Long, Legislators

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

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• A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

  Jancee Dunn

  Artist, Names, Rolling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.

  Diana L. Eck

  Spiritual, Journey, Practice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, President, Contact

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• It's been an unusual election [2016].

  William Kristol

  Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

  Nick Lowe

  Artist, Careers, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

  David Guterson

  Hero, Journey, Men

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• An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Mind, Half

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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