#rarest

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. ↗

— James Broughton

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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. ↗

— Thomas More

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Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

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The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. ↗

— Ike Skelton

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