#peculiar

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

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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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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. ↗

— Paracelsus

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. ↗

— Christopher Smart

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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. ↗

— Grace Paley

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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. ↗

— James Agee

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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

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You don't have to be peculiar to find God. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#god #peculiar #you

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

— John Updike

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