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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. ↗

— Carly Simon

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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. ↗

— Georges Seurat

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ↗

— Nicholson Baker

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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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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 possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. ↗

— Christopher Smart

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