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What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. — Thomas Sowell
Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized that… — Unknown Author
Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular — Marguerite Blessington
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by… — Aristotle
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get… — Samuel Butler
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of… — Albert Camus
I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,… — Henry David Thoreau
Take a guy like Phil Collins, for instance. He's known as a pop-rock artist, but some of his music is so amazingly funky. I think… — Gym Class Heroes
I guess weve got this grand tradition of sort of English eccentrics. Over there youve got artists like Lady Gaga youve got some really out-there… — Florence And The Machine
I did this not as a sex act...but out of hate for her. I don't mean out of hate for her in particular, really I… — Albert DeSalvo
I'm not a violent person at all,When I felt like clubbing this particular journalist to death, I just directed it at myself. I don't regret… — Richey Edwards
I had a hard time believing that a lot of these guys really did much of what they said they did because it was so… — Big Meech
You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under… — Agatha Christie
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat… — Rick Perry
I am comfortable doing films of all genre. If an actor says that he likes one particular genre then he is not a complete actor.… — Ajay Devgan
Although WE-HUMANS in general and WE-INDIANS in particular can KNOW NAMELESS-FORMLESS-BODYLESS-SELFLESS-UNSELFISH-ETERNAL-GOD or FOREVER-LIVING-BHAGAVAN-PARAMAATMAN;but niither WE KNOW HIM/HER/IT etc,nor DO WE WANT TO KNOW HIM/HER/IT;therefore I… — Rkpatel
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction. — Friedrich Von Schlegel
I cannot stand the lock-step among everyone in my particular world. They all do the same thing, without variation. It gets so boring. — Tom Wolfe
What we refer to as the truth is only an approximation of the absolute truth. No one knows what is true, or no one is… — N Atta Kusi Adusei

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