The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
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The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
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