#exceedingly

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

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I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. ↗

— William Bligh

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Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. ↗

— William Bligh

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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ↗

— William Gibson

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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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I think health is another exceedingly important thing. ↗

— Joan Collins

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. ↗