#peculiar

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#artisans #been #being #best #creature

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fool #forget #his #others #own

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#cannot #causes #church #convey #dangerous

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#being #expect #fame #got #i

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#become #city #civilization #immigrant #menace

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#makes #meaning #meaning of #mind #modification

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

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