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«In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.»
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
| About:
Humanity,
Nations
| Keywords:
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«The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.»
Author: Bryan Miller
| About:
Cooking,
Passion,
Work
| Keywords:
abiding, akin, balance, cook, exceptional, impeccable, limb, sense of balance, The Task, tightrope, walker, walkers
«I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.»
Author: Jean Houston
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«The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.»
«I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
cases, childhood, convinced, exceptional, extraordinary, formation, formations, gifts, in one case, one form
«He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
exceptional, heard, judged, mysterious, ordinary, plain, plainer, plainest
«What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
characterize, characterizes, exceptional, Forces of Evil, insignificant, marvelous, member, minority, minority group
«The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.»
«There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, divined, exceptional, experienced, grievous, missed, pains
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