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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing -… — Ozwald Boateng
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does… — Lorrie Moore
If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally… — Aristotle
We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God… — Oswald Chambers
It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction… — Brownie Wise
Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and… — Charlotte Beers
The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family... instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance,… — Neem Karoli Baba
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are giving them and… — Stasi Eldredge
Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape… — Samuel Johnson
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene… — Edward Lawrie Tatum
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story. — Richard Linklater
The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no… — Joanne Greenberg
I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style… — Billy Sheehan
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler
The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about… — Mike Patton
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided… — Unknown Author
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. — Charles Friend
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in… — David Bellos
Good ideas are not good enough. They need to be God ideas. Just because someone else’s methods work does not mean they will work for… — Phil Pringle
One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in… — Dolores LaChapelle
Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus,… — Sonia Choquette
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way… — Alan Watts

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