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"We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life."
"With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."
"Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels."
"Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing."
"I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death."
"You start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you...don't try to hide it. I don't try to blend in anymore, it's all about standing out."
"When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?"
"It takes a special kind of person to fight back."
"In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at."
"I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun."
"I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West."
"Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution."
"You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them."
"I always talk about movies a lot beforehand, and then we would get there, and I'd say, "Let's play around and see how it goes." And they would do it, and I'd go, "Well, that was awesome." It was really - I don't know, it was really special to watch them."
"Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking."
"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities."
"The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities"
"Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent."
"By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events."
"A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way."
