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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage afl. 12, 14-12-1980 -
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 7 min 25 sec -
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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Frequently, the extraordinary man is only the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances.
Source: The maxims of Marmaduke -
God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 41 -
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.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
Source: Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977) -
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
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I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
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