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Tag Name "Rare" (1016)

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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
Milton Friedman
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Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.
Andy Andrews
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What is normal? Normal is only ordinary mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
Virginia C. Andrews
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
Andrew Marvell
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
Norman Vincent Peale
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
Vivienne Westwood
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
Gloria Steinem
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Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.
Andre Holland
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
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It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
Anais Nin
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin
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Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.
Joyce Beatty
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The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Andrew Carnegie
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
Amelia Earhart
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Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
Warren Buffett
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Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.
Frances Trollope
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
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