„It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.“

— Ben Carson
„You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Our principles: freedom, independence, responsibility, choice—these and the democracy built upon them are Britain's special legacy to the world.“
— Margaret Thatcher