"I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!"
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"Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do."
"Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference."
"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
"Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them."
"I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens"
"Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is."
"Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change."
"You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it."
"The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little."
"Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all"
"There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life"
"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."
"I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me."
"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow."
"When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life."
"The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture."
"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."
"I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special"