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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.


E. O. Wilson


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The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.


Cole Younger


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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


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As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.


Townsend Harris


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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.


Joseph Hume


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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.


Richard Wilbur


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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


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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


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I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.


Robert Plant


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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


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