Peculiar Quotes

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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its… — Jean Piaget
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. — Abraham Lincoln
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I… — Helen Mirren
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm… — George S. Patton
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. — James Madison
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has… — Samuel Johnson
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it,… — James Agee
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra,… — Victor Borge
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another… — Henry David Thoreau
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the… — Thomas A. Edison
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in… — Gustave Eiffel

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