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oddities feelings enlightenment
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Alan Watts
oddities exactly-is effort
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? Charles Krauthammer
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. Dean Young
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams
oddities people may
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
oddities age
This is the age of oddities let loose. Lord Byron
oddities
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. Napoleon Bonaparte
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. George Eliot
oddities laughing judgment
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. Eugene Mirman
individuality apes firsts
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. Dian Fossey
individuality promise fruit
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. Bella Abzug
individuality painting poet
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. Diane Wakoski
individuality substance rational
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. Boethius
individuality way individualism
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. Billie Joe Armstrong
individuality should refinement
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever. Ashley Montagu
individuality definitions multitudes
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. Arthur Koestler
individuality important democracy
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. Abdul Kalam
individuality
Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both. Brian Celio
complicated machinery cradle
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. Kurt Vonnegut
complicated abandoned
Recently abandoned women can be complicated. Elizabeth Kostova
complicated problem curious
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious. Carl Andre
complicated
Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated... Avril Lavigne
complicated
Don't complicate whatever is not complicated. Demian Bichir
complicated problem sometimes
By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated. Ashleigh Brilliant
complicated messy flawed
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy. Brit Marling
complicated problem no-problem
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated. Andy Grove
complicated term concessions
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. Charles Cumming