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• Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Letters, Stranger

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Gum

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• The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Data, Keys, Computer

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• Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Clothes, Appreciate, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

  Henry Miller

  Shadow, Passing Away, Earth

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like.  But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.

  Frederick Franck

  Thinking, Kale, Looks

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• There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Promptness, Falsehood

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• Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Phases, Paganism

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

  Shalom Auslander

  Disappointment, Dysfunction, Disease

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Gay, Thinking, White

  "Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson". Book by Keith Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality

  Steven Levitt

  Reality, Thinking, Average

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• ...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

  Muriel Barbery

  Self, Proof, Deep Within

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.

  Scott D. Anthony

  People, Unexpected, Study

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

  Vinton Cerf

  May, Privacy

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• So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.

  P. C. Cast

  New Life

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map. You may find local companies that have nothing wrong with them at all. A company that I found, Western Insurance Securities, was trading for $3/share when it was earning $20/share!! I tried to buy up as much of it as possible. No one will tell you about these businesses. You have to find them.

  Warren Buffett

  Rocks, Maps, May

  Interview with students, boards.fool.com. May 6, 2005.

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• I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.

  Lana Del Rey

  Two, Russia, Doctors

  "Cover Story: Lana Del Rey Is Anyone She Wants to Be" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. June 04, 2014.

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• It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

  Gerry Spence

  Justice, Atoms, Splits

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• It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

  Hans Eysenck

  Impact, Important, May

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• It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Men, House

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• Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Parent, Letters

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• . . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

  Eavan Boland

  Fog, Giving, Relief

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Domestic Violence”, W. W. Norton

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• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

  Irene Khan

  Iran, Punishment, Usa

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