To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character… — William James Copy Share Image
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The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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