"I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too."
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"Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??"
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"My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves."
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"Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion."
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"Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will."
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"Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one."
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"When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted."
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"It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
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"The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them."
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"I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk."
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"How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself."
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"The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy."
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"Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction."
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"They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness."
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"It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness."
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"There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They’re magical people. They have special power."
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"Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God."
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"The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal."
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"Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build."
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"Love is a special way of being alive."
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