#singular

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. ↗

— Erica Jong

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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

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The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

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It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#destiny #fate #singularity #the-singularity #change