The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Charles Darwin
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen
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.
Stanley Kubrick
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.
Phil Morrison
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
Neither do I. It's very peculiar.
Jennifer Gray
There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from that point of view.
Jeff Chang
It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.
Jack Gould
It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.
Troy Fisher
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad
It has always struck me as being peculiar that we do so little with our military history, in particular with that war, although it would have been ferociously difficult to shoot before now - beyond our means and capacity to photograph.
Paul Gross
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
John James Audubon
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John Dryden
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
Maimonides
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
They've said the next action will be final. It's very peculiar to say no matter what you say, we're not going to give you a fair shake.
James Wallace
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Jelly Roll Morton
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Richard Wilbur
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.
Ronald Ross
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson Algren
It will be a very peculiar closing ceremony, full of art, melodrama and circus acrobats. The aim is to have a big party that everyone will enjoy.
Daniele Finzi Pasca
It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.
John Bankhead
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
Arthur Hertzberg
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
This is a peculiar type of transition. Serbia will move on when these issues are resolved.
Danijel Pantic
Enrollment increase is clearly regionalized, clearly it is lumpy, it is uneven from place to place, ... And that makes it even more peculiar that we would think of the federal government getting deeply involved.
Chester Finn
It is very peculiar that this type of thing should still be happening in this day and age.
Eugene Opperman
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