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'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style. — Bill Hicks
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random? You'€™d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€™s… — Andrew McCarthy
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to… — Mary Douglas
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular… — Emily Carr
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles,… — William Strunk, Jr.
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular… — Henry David Thoreau
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples… — Alfred North Whitehead
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and… — Jim Hodges
Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow… — Susanna Tamaro
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided… — Robert Nozick
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point… — Melanie Phillips
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… — Alain de Botton
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their… — Desmond Morris
Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path… — Rumer Willis
The high number from the Middle East is only coincidence, he said. It is no particular choice on our part, ... We accept visa trainees… — Martin Gardner
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a… — Clay Aiken
With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of… — Thomas Jefferson
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of… — Noah Webster
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. — John Stuart Mill

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