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“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.”

Way May Two Ideas Different Process Focus Influence Subjects Particular Math Drawing Physics Circles Developing Mutual Yield Interaction Virtuous Two Ways Different Times Lead In

Author:Edward Frenkel

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.”

Two Country Winning President Break Century Policy Position Building Particular Election Arguing Faithful Predecessors Being Faithful

Author:Barack Obama

“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

Thinking Way Two Hands Together Generations Magic Particular Smart Machines Method Someday Artificial Intelligence Improving Being Smart Maybe Someday

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.”

Should Two Eye Conditions Design Particular Theory Pure Details Reform His Eyes Two Things Legislators

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.”

People Years Heart Two Different Light Religion Spirituality Changed Taught Divine Particular Recognizing Awakened Divine Light

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.”

Two Spirit Given Stars Creativity Creative Saws Greater Particular Aspect Perfection Absolutes Mood Cosmos Makers Barren

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.”

People Thinking World Firsts Two Reason Land Particular Painting Relate Two Worlds Underwater

Author:Robert Lyn Nelson

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.”

People Two Bigs Next Names Grows Talking Particular Breaths Sentences Charm Disgusting Beard Brian Cleveland

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.”

Two Different Form Order Atheism Information Particular Positive Atheism Impression Propaganda Censorship Favour Deliberate Viewpoints Selective Doctoring

Author:James A.C. Brown

“It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.”

Men Mean Two Particular He Man Genius Taste Display Diamond Odds Disputes Quickness Luster

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.”

May Two Left Hell Growing Mystery Particular Hair Intellectual Expectations Curiosity Rage Pursuit Pursue Broke Grades Infinity Phases Fifth Girlhood Fifth Grade Societal Expectations

Author:Alice Kahn

“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.”

“There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.”

Two Ends Facts Century Particular Industry Internet Computer Two Things

Author:Douglas Adams

“I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.”

People Want Two Character Fiction Roles Crime Particular Patterns Get Away Bothered Crime Fiction Backdrop Supporting Roles

Author:Steig Larsson

“There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.”

Persons Two Hate Nations Quality Sun Particular Beats Sight I Hate Ill France Acquaintance Politeness Back Again

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.”

Children Two Form Parent Particular Type Adults Setting Traditional Settings Variety Thrive Multiple Unmarried Single Parent Caretakers

Author:Sandra Scarr

“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.”

Two Humanity Particular Creatures Elements Catholic Faculty

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.”

Way May Long Two Age Three Space Careers Particular Difficulty Favors Old Age Boots Lease Long Careers Traverse

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.”

Two Life Is Particular Errors Investing Wrong Life Is Like Generalisation

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.”

World Giving Mind Believe Persons Has Beens Two I Believe Opinion Particular Opposites I Believe In Credit Instance Divided Witch Witchcraft Paganism Two Opposites Wiccan

Book:The de Coverley papers

Source: The de Coverley papers

“For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.”

Kind Two Different Strong Emotional Particular Listening Aspect Composer Very Strong Different Kinds Tchaikovsky Strong Emotional

Author:Crispin Glover

“There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!”

Kind Said Two Certain Dies Peace Common Grace Particular Return Affair Inevitable Prophet Accomplished Resurrection Messengers Turn To God

Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi

“So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.”

People Years Kind Two Matter Hard Shows Artist Groups Particular No Matter What Mad Clouds Rage Ignorant Two Years Show Business Being An Artist

Author:Chris Rock

“I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.”

Two Use Lines Novel Written Example Particular Paper Distance Size Holes Superstitious Clip Folders Distance Apart

Author:Philip Pullman

“In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place”

People Men Giving Writing Trying Two Character Jobs Speak Voice Particular Lovers Gay Claims Gay Men Achilles Patroclus

Author:Madeline Miller

“There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.”

Ifs Want Trying Firsts Two Ends Individual Particular Exception Rules Of Life Exception To The Rule

Author:Samuel Butler

“While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points”

May Two Lines Economy Particular Competition Railroads Duplicate

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.”

“Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.”

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.”

Feels Wells Two Order Term Particular Balance Work Out Two Things Routine Very Strong Routine Work

Author:Kamala Harris

“Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.”

Two Fantasy Share Particular Couple Partners Mysterious Dirty Poison Minors Rationality Scenarios Cleanliness Auras Perversion Fetish

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“I think a lot of people become actors because they have a great reservoir and repertoire of many different emotions they felt over their lives. It's like having a toolbox, and you go down into the toolbox and choose one or two of those that you need for a particular scenario, or something that comes up in a line.”

People Thinking Needs Two Different Actors Felt Lines Emotion Particular Come Up Scenarios Reservoirs Toolbox Different Emotions

Author:Maria Bello

“There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.”

Kind Two Particular Genius Reflection Speed Strikes Intense Characteristics Lightning Selected Roaring Constrain

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.”

Humans Two Rights Particular Standards Environmental Human Rights Experts Activist Framework Developmental

Author:Mary Robinson

“When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.”

Should Writing Two Moments Character Space Particular Tvs Pages Beats Details Rhythm Comic Vernacular

Author:Eric Kripke

“To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.”

“I'm imagining there's a particular audience out there that's younger and older, too. It works on two levels. Do they exist? I don't know. I had to make it to find out if it does. When you do something this experimental, that's part of the process and part of the risk. I only spent my own money, so that I'm the only person that gets hurt, if it fails.”

Ifs Knows Persons Doe Two Process Hurt My Own Levels Audience Failing Risk Particular

Author:Joseph M. Kahn

“We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Made Two Winning Loses Party Too Much Particular Election Win Or Lose

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

Two Seems Past Media Particular Painting Photography Performances Leaving Decades Boundaries Mediums Sculpture Over The Past

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.”

Knows Way Two Beautiful Father Views Particular Sweet Flower Type Bird Plant Desert Meat Do You Know Testament Old Testament Rotting Vulture Nectar Abba Hummingbirds Abba Father

Author:Brian Houston

“I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.”

Years Two Games Lost Loses Emotion Football Particular Capable Hunger Revenge Lust Girlfriend Lots Of Money Exes Reserved Football Game Ex Girlfriend

Author:Jason Mulgrew

“I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I'm a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.”

Trying Two Helping Home Animal Dog Particular Findings Cat Organization Incredibles Believer Firm Welfare Rescue Devoted Shelter Ambassadors Two Dogs Animal Shelter

Author:Patrick Fabian

“I think that people find that's a fresh look at a relationship between two best friends, between two soul mates, that people haven't really seen in this particular way. So that's definitely something that people are noticing.”

People Thinking Way Looks Two Soul Havens Particular Mates Noticing Soul Mate Two Souls Two Best Friends

Author:Steve Zissis

“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.”

Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

“There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.”

Ifs Humans May Two Soul Sometimes Turns Prayer Common Liberty Practice Sea Particular Worship Hundred Conscience Jew Ships Combination Fallen Woe Compelled Protestants Commonwealth Hinges

Author:Roger Williams

“I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. It concerns Iran as well, it concerns Saudi Arabia (although the two countries do not get along very well, ISIS threatens both of them), it concerns Jordan, it concerns Turkey (in spite of certain problems regarding the Kurdish issue), and, in my opinion, everybody is interested in resolving the situation. Our task is to join these efforts to fight against a common enemy.”

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