According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely… Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto 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
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware… — James Small Copy Share Image
It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears… — Hilton Hotema Copy Share Image
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired.… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
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