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• Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

  Chuck Jones

  Ordinary, Needs, Esoteric

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

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• It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Born

  Song: Conversations with the Devil

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• People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

  David Plotz

  Jobs, People, Boss

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• There is unusual power in united prayer. God has planned for His people to join together in prayer, not only for Christian fellowship, spiritual nurture, and growth, but also for accomplishing His divine purposes and reaching His chosen goals.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.123, Zondervan

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• It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

  Tom Jones

  Fun, Cry, Dies

  Song: It's Not Unusual

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• Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Special, Becoming

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• Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Crazy, Odds, Mad

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Ends

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• Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

  Raymond Chandler

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.69, Vintage

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• I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Goal, Stories, Pages

  Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2008.

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• This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

  Desmond Morris

  Successful, Fundamentals, Motive

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

  Chuck Jones

  Real, People, Farce

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sound, Example, Would Be

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• it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Sometimes, Born

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.32, Grove Press

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• People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Different, Becoming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Technology, Innovation, World

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• I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

  George Harrison

  Perfectly Normal, Would Be, Curious

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Jobs, Giving

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• If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

  Seth Shostak

  Intelligent, Would Be, Planets

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• Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

  Robert Musil

  Book, Cases, Determine

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Running, Philosophy, Political

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• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wise, Tea, May

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

  William James

  Perseverance, Passing Away, Force

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Men, Dust

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Change, Thinking, World

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