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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way." »Goethe
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"If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question." »Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas
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"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar." »Grace Paley
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"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace." »John Dryden
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'." »Hume
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"God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry." »Wilberforce
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"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." »Isaac Rosenfeld
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." »John Jay Chapman
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer." »Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?" »Charles Darwin
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"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn." »Blaise Pascal
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"Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha" »Ian Hay
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"The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner." »Kedar Joshi
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"He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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