Peculiarities Quotes

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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a… — Andrea Bocelli
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the… — William James
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor… — William Holmes McGuffey
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. — Sargent Shriver
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at… — Christopher Heyerdahl
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? — Gary Snyder
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see… — Diane Arbus
Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying… — Valentina Tereshkova
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires… — Jerry Thomas
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer… — Douglas Rushkoff
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. — Isaac D'Israeli
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons… — Rene Descartes
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the… — James Clerk Maxwell
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest… — Walter Bagehot
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl

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