"The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status."
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"Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special."
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"In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain."
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"I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty."
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"If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it."
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"Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?."
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"Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination."
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
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"Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang."
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"Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special."
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"How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it."
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"Everyone is born with some special talent."
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"I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them."
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"Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later."
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"The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written."
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"I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it."
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"I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now."
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"I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in."
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"It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day."
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"I am the first model in the history of Victoria's Secret shows who walked the show wearing her TWA. Hence, I felt very special when I actually got the request to walk the show wearing my TWA."
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