{"quotes":[{"text":"I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.","author":"Alex Trebek","tags":["game","think","special "],"id":164,"author_id":"Alex+Trebek"},{"text":"If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... To fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What’s so special about humans...?', I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I’m not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point....I could pose the same kinds of questions of you... So God says, 'You are guys are really, really special.' How does his saying it make us special? 'But you see, he gave us a soul.' How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say… 'What’s so special about that?","author":"Shelly Kagan","tags":["calculus","complex-nervous-systems","debate","humanity","humans","meaning","poetry","purpose","special"],"id":1693,"author_id":"Shelly+Kagan"},{"text":"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["creation","science","special","superstition","universe"],"id":1904,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.","author":"Carine Roitfeld","tags":["i am","want","special "],"id":8895,"author_id":"Carine+Roitfeld"},{"text":"He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["ask","better","broken","discover","himself","other","people","ponder","question","special","stupid","truth","wonder","worse","you","yourself"],"id":10468,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Love is for the birds.Honey is for the bees.And you, my special one.Are the only one for me.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["bees","birds","heart","honey","love","one-liner","philosophy","special"],"id":12333,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["men","better","special "],"id":14457,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.","author":"Pope John Paul II","tags":["children","parents","special "],"id":19508,"author_id":"Pope+John+Paul+II"},{"text":"My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.","author":"Evelyn Glennie","tags":["holiday","practice","special "],"id":22751,"author_id":"Evelyn+Glennie"},{"text":"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["allow","boy","desire","desires","fancy","flirt","forbid","forbidden","girl","goth","gothic","kiss","kissing","let","licence","longing","love","loved","loving","once","permission","relationship","relationships","romance","special","suspense","twice","want","wish","yearn","yearning","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance","young-adult-romance"],"id":24769,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":193,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}