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Letter "P" » peculiarity
«I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.»
Author: Edward Gorey
(Artist, Author, Designer, Illustrator)
| Keywords:
ascending, conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, Order of, peculiarities, peculiarity, subconscious
«Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
comes out, flaw, intend, ironic, one-way street, peculiarities, peculiarity
«One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on t»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Revolution, counterbalance, counterbalancing, decision making, incentives, peculiarities, peculiarity, pinned, structuring, The American Revolution, The Organization, units
«PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dazzles, oratorical, peculiarities, peculiarity, powder, preparing, The Explosion
«It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
Mind,
Truth
| Keywords:
cynicism, excursion, peculiarities, peculiarity, regards
«As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision. Embodiments of Love, Mankind today has three types of vision. The first is body oriented vision, which is totally superficial. When you have this kind of vision you see only the external appearance of others, such as the clothes and the ornaments they wear, their facial features, their body characteristics, their peculiarities of speech, etc. This type of vision is oriented only towards the phenomenal world. The second kind of vision is insightful vision.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Arjuna, discrimination, embodiments, etc., etc, facial, first appearance, insightful, Krishna, orient, oriented, ornaments, peculiarities, peculiarity, phenomenal
«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.»
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