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«Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
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combination, involves, misunderstanding, peculiar, unfathomable
«It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Luck,
Photography
| Keywords:
hook, lie in, peculiar, photographer, stream, subduing, unfair
«I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
artists, conflict, criminals, peculiar, tragic
«I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.»
«It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.»
«It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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desolation, extreme, extreme poverty, indescribable, peculiar, rises, strikes, The Image, unutterable
«It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Country,
Happiness,
Virtue
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boast, collective, dependent, dependent on, exertions, peculiar, rests, The Collective
«I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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ask for, attribute, conversed, converses, conversing, descriptions, peculiar, professions, pursuits, rule of, topics
«In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
breast, deals, domain, domains, field of battle, foes, Free Inquiry, furies, inquiry, malignant, meets, peculiar, political economy, private interest, summons
«Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
God,
Inspiration
| Keywords:
chosen, divine spirit, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, flatulence, hissed, hisses, Holy Spirit, inspiration, peculiar, the Holy Spirit
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