#anomaly

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#born #leader #man #powerful #powerful man

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #almost #anomaly #artists #because

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#been #experience #had #high #high school

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#chain #darkness #discovery #drops #every

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#anomaly #apparent #corps #existence #interest

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

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