#peculiar

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. ↗

— Clive Bell

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#betrayed #fidelity #peculiar #those #virtue

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

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

— David Hume

#brain #call #little #peculiar #privilege

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

— Carly Simon

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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 tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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