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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said."

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Brian Williams Journalist
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"Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats."

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Andy Cohen Television Producer
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"You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show, and we loved the stories that it brought to Bravo and the creativity. And it was a magic five seasons."

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Angus King Politician
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"I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God."

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