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The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (Lawyer, French , born in 1755) keywords: body, every, flavor, flavors, infinite, none, number, other , peculiar 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.
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (Lawyer, French , born in 1755) keywords: action, different, fed, implanted, increase, living, lowest, mechanism, native, nourish, peculiar, roots, scale, select, serve, soil, subjects, them, things, vegetables , which Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.
by Dwight Schultz (Actor, American , born in 1947) keywords: ability, deformed, describe, had, investigate, light, may, noticed, particle, peculiar, physics, something, space, such, today , way Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
by Georges Seurat (Artist, French , born in 1859) keywords: artist, character, depends, drawing, each, only, originality, peculiar , vision For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
by Georg Simmel (Sociologist, German , born in 1858) keywords: allocating, both, conditions, development, men, metropolis, opportunities, peculiar, presents, revealed, roles, stimuli, these, us, ways , which I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
by Carly Simon (Musician, American , born in 1945) keywords: get, never, particular, peculiar, say, things, think, those , try Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: altogether, ambition, desire, directing, great, instrument, leading, man, peculiar, real, seems, speech , superiority The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
by Madeleine Stowe (Actor, American , born in 1958) keywords: attempted, away, dead, felt, first, forced, fort, ground, kiss, knew, level, others, peculiar, right, saying, scene, spite, spot, three, times, were , wrong 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.
by Lytton Strachey (Critic, English , born in 1880) keywords: achieved, century, domain, eighteenth, great, indeed, literature, many, peculiar, pure, their, thought, triumphs, were , writers Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
by Lytton Strachey (Critic, English , born in 1880) keywords: age, aristocrat, fact, gives, his, la, majority, peculiar, tone, unlike, work , writers The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
by Josiah Strong (Clergyman, American , born in 1847) keywords: attraction, become, city, civilization, immigrant, menace, our, peculiar , serious 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.
by Billy Sunday (Athlete, American , born in 1862) keywords: believe, cannot, causes, church, convey, dangerous, doctrine, effect, impression, itself, judged, more, other, peculiar, revival, rules, same, something, than, things , today 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.
by Billy Sunday (Athlete, American , born in 1862) keywords: believe, cannot, causes, church, convey, dangerous, doctrine, effect, impression, itself, judged, more, other, peculiar, revival, rules, same, something, than, things , today Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: benevolence, either, government, madness, magnitude, organized, peculiar, permits , shading The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
by Thorstein Veblen (Economist, American , born in 1857) keywords: addiction, arrested, degree, development, man, marks, moral, nature, peculiar, sports , therefore 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.
by Richard Wilbur (Poet, American , born in 1921) keywords: anonymous, common, congress, fundamental, himself, men, most, peculiar, personal, poet, speaks, things , true 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.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: being, belief, central, conviction, curious, existence, fact, far, few, human, inevitable, life, loneliness, men, myself, now, other, peculiar, phenomenon, rare, rests, solitary, upon , whole The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
by Cole Younger (Criminal, American , born in 1844) keywords: ancestors, being, born, county, fighters, inherited, instance, instinct, jackson, line, long, missouri, peculiar, respects, section, seemed, some, take, very, western, where , will
