“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
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“There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people, who feel that they possess power, are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular.”
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
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Fausto Cercignani
(1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
Robert Boyle
(1627–1691) English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
"A Free Inquiry into the Vulgar Notion of Nature," Sect.1 in The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1725) Vol.2 http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-YJAAAAMAAJ
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
Edmund Hillary
(1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
Disputed
“Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.”
Martin Dempsey
(1952) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Praising the Israeli army's actions in the military engagement with Gaza in 2014, as quoted in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 December 2014, p.20.
Robertson Davies
(1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
"Gzowski on FM".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
John C. Maxwell
(1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Christopher Hitchens
(1949–2011) British American author and journalist
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Mommie Dearest
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html, quoted in Michael Shermer, "The Skeptic's Skeptic," Scientific American, November 2010, p. 86.
February/March
http://secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_24_2.html
Less than Miraculous
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"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." appears by itself in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007).
Translation of the Latin phrase "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.".
2000s, 2003
Variant: "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." in * 2004
B.K.S. Iyengar
(1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95
