#peculiar

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#brought #everything #exists #great #kindergarten

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#bohemian #certain #elements #fault #found

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#love #narration #peculiar #poetry #love

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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