Peculiar Quotes

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Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might… — Thomas Merton
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, â€” who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My… — Laurence Sterne
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life?… — Percival Lowell
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin â€” consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the… — Josephus
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe
... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also… — John Ruskin
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx

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