#peculiar

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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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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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. ↗

— Hans Blix

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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Love is a peculiar thing. ↗

— Georg Buchner

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