Exceptional
- The late Dr Anton Rupert - Billionaire, former UP Chancellor and Tukkie of the Century
- Dr.Chris Barnard: Led first successful human-to-human heart transplant
- Dr Mimi Coertse: International Opera personality
- Prof Christof Heyns, United Nations Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- Dr Marius Kloppers: International CEO of global mining giant BHP Billiton
- Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi: Minister of Public Service & Administration
- Dr Chris Stals: Business leader & former UP Chancellor
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Winner of Nobel Peace Prize
- Dr Johan van Zyl: CEO: Sanlam
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Famous quotes containing the word exceptional:
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)