"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]"
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"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms."
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"It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply."
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"We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed."
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"A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse."
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"That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues."
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"All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way."
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"... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever."
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"North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social."
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"There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation."
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"Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh."
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