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• When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Thinking, Foam

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.

  Joachim-Ernst Berendt

  Play, Roots, Singing

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• Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.

  Catherine Booth

  Heart, Sacrifice, Hands

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• If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Our Thoughts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Commodity, Vicious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine,
  shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

  James Dickey

  Frost, Pieces, Toilets

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• Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
  our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
  which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
  wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

  David Hilbert

  Lying, Goal, Secret

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• How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Law, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essentials, Body, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1906). “Miscellanies”

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• Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.

  Gersonides

  Art, Knowing, Perfection

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• At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Morning, Book, Thinking

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Forever, Use

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Squares, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Greatness, Mountain

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• Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

  Mike Bickle

  Church Service, Twenties, Way

  Mike Bickle (2013). “After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You”, p.3, Charisma Media

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• No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Men, May

  "The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 14, speech on parliamentary reform (March 2, 1831), 1900.

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• Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Humor, Soil

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.109, Oxford University Press

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• Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Interesting, Attention, Worthy

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Gains, Conflict

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1958.

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• If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

  P. D. James

  Doctors, Hands, Life And Death

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• Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Careers, Two, Space

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• General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Dangerous, Application, Instance

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”, p.268

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• If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Odds, Risk, Investing

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• Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Two, Investing

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Feb 12, 2015

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• When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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