Unique Quotes — Page 45

LB

Comedian, Actor, Author

“Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.”

Enough Unique Existentialism

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.”

Hands Hero Unique

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.”

People Culture Unique

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.”

Mean Unique Fit

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.”

Men Heart Unique

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher

“It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!”

Men Unique Privilege

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.”

World Unique Europe

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.”

Important Issues Unique

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Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist

“Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.”

Years Unique Skeletons

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JM

Janet Malcolm

Journalist, Author