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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. Malcolm Muggeridge

Truth God Truth Is Nothing Believe Worse Has-Been High High Level Developed Sin Said Been Sins Very Human Stop Human Beings Anything Which Century Much Beings Twentieth Twentieth Century Believing Level Credulity Peculiar

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe

Life Myself Loneliness Rare Men My Life Inevitable Few Conviction Other Solitary Rests Fact Existence Curious Human Being Central Human Existence Far Whole Belief Now Phenomenon Peculiar

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

Soul Eyes World Looking Sense Others Through Self Contempt Looks Always Tape Sensation Pity Measuring Amused Peculiar

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. P. T. Barnum

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus

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I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. Robert Plant

Smile Men Seen Think Worn Must Wear Some Had Most Without Been Led Led Zeppelin Cracking Clothing Ever Zeppelin Peculiar

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce

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The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. Charles Spurgeon

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. Abraham Lincoln

Myself Great Man Be True Ambition Every Other Say Worthy Shall Developed True Rendering Said How How Far His Truly Being Esteem Esteemed Whether Succeed Far Gratifying Every Man Peculiar

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. Bette Davis

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift. Billy Dee Williams

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. John Muir

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. Naguib Mahfouz

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There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me. Twinkle Khanna

Life Me My Life Nothing Live Way Look Goat Offend Very Gets Where Manner Things Amuse Peculiar

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson

Music People Joy Sadness Doubt Typical Address Would No Doubt Both Argue Combination Nevertheless Piece Another Clock Very Irony Which Sentimental England English English People Bell Peculiar

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests. Ada Lovelace

Science Everyday Strictly Analytical Those Rather Bear Abstract Feel Perhaps Involving Powers Questions Very Than May Human Ordinary Interests Engine Views Who Incline Utilitarian Speculative Peculiar

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world. Ada Lovelace

World Word Wish Own Sense Add Laws My Own Small Prophets Almighty Feel Towards Most Glory Were His Effective Noted Mankind Should Use Certainly Using Works Interpreting Peculiar

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar. Alan Moore

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that. Ann Nocenti

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