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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

~Amelia Earhart

Topics: Also Comparable Crash Everything Feats Get Glory Men More Must Notoriety Pay Than Women

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What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers' wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.

~Auguste Escoffier

Topics: Been Charge Customers Feats Forced Had Ingenuity Kitchen Large Meet Modern Only Order Our Perform Tale Tell Those Times Who Wishes

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The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Awaiting Creativity Details Discomfort Extraordinary Feats Harmonious Ingenuity Inspires Like Men Men And Women Mind Nothing Ordinary Otherwise Perplexity Quite Resolution Women

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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

~Dave Winfield

Topics: Again Challenged Era Feats Game Hank Like Look Man Monumental People Quo Records Status Status Quo Where You Aaron

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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

~Doug Larson

Topics: Accomplished Enough Feats Greatest Impossible Know People Smart Some Were World

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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: About Believe Building Company Comradeship Dangers Effort Everything Feats Giving Got Greatest Intense Peers Pleasant Really Sensation Sharing Something Still Up Very You Your

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We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning's path when he retired. But hey, that's natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Achieve Admire Any Appear Craft Exalted Feats He Hey Less Michael Natural Nowhere Out Path Petals Remarkable Retired Rose Should Sports Strewn Those Water Were Who

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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

~Frank Moore Colby

Topics: About Canal Feats His Learns Literary Little Man Memory More Than

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Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.

~Fritz Zwicky

Topics: Accelerate Achieve Concerned Drag Earth Enough Even Feats High Itself Leave Might Other Planets Remarkably Speaking Speed Stars Strictly Suffice Sun Very Will Would

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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

~George Allen, Sr.

Topics: Athletes Before Crowds Feats Friendly Great Obscurity Paved Perform Street Who

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