Particular Quotes

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Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal. — Bela Karolyi
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot… — Ernest Belfort Bax
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and… — William Hazlitt
From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but… — David Simon
It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration… — Montel Williams
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation… — Vaclav Havel
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. — Rene Descartes
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of… — Mao Zedong
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where… — Samuel Johnson
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? — David Sarnoff
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well. — John Cleese
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have… — Abraham Lincoln

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