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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. Nelson Algren | top
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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 | top
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Love is a peculiar thing. Georg Buchner | top
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. William Ellery Channing | top
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It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. Paul Conrad | top
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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. James Dickey | top
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. Brian Eno | top
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. G. Stanley Hall | top
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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. Rudolf Hiferding | top
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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. Guillermo Cabrera Infante | top
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. Dean Koontz | top
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. Yehudi Menuhin | top
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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 | top
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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. Mira Nair | top
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. Paracelsus | top
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. Lester B. Pearson | top
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. George Haven Putnam | top
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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 | top
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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. Carly Simon | top
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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. Goldwin Smith | top
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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 | top
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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. Lytton Strachey | top
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. Billy Sunday | top
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. John Updike | top
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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. Richard Wilbur | top
