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• This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

  Stendhal

  Thinking, Unusual Things, Self

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• In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

  Lewis Carroll

  Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

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• What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

  Conrad Hyers

  Life, Focus, Ordinary

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• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Fate, Knights, Optimism

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• Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Comedian, Singers

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

  Mario Monti

  Running, Country, Guy

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• "She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Way

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• In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Errors, Profound, Pieces

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Computer

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• Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Rewards, Life Is

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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• It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

  Maya Deren

  Fire, Flames, Break Through

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• Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Being A Teacher

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• Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

  Steven Strogatz

  Latin, Math, Rocks

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Learning, Together, Chess

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• There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

  Barbara Pym

  Heart, Broken, Way

  Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Character

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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• The unusual wins out over the usual.

  Sam Abell

  Winning, Usual

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• I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Thinking, Quirky, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Slave, States

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

  Betty White

  Blessing, Two, Three

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these ever-changing combinations, he is then able to look on them again and again, and he has the further pleasure of pleasing others with the sight of things which he, with perhaps unusual opportunities, was able to see, which his friends would otherwise not ever be able to.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Children, Opportunity, Glasses

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