#particular

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#individual #interests #interruption #particular #pressure

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#apply #friend #him #his #life

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#any #cup #effects #everyone #further

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. ↗

— Michael Behe

#been #beyond #cell #examples #history

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. ↗

— Angela Davis

#had #i #individual #leadership #myself

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#also #basis #candidate #chosen #correct

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ↗

— Joan Didion

#been #course #flawless #great #hotels

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ↗

— William Blake

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People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

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