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"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing."
"calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm."
"The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees."
"We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks."
"God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts."
"My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat."
"For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give."
"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."
"It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams."
"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."
"You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world."
"Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be."
"The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event."
"I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth."
"A song can take you to a special time in your life."
"Blood is a very special juice."
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."
"Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments."
"People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special."
