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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. ↗

— Philip Guston

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