#rare

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

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Change is rarely comfortable. ↗

— Arno Penzias

#comfortable #rarely

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen. ↗

— John H. Speke

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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America. ↗

— Ben Stein

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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! ↗

— Homer

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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

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Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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