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Characteristic of only one person, group, or thing




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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. - Diane Arbus

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. - W. E. B. Du Bois

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. - Adam Smith

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. - Abraham Lincoln

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. - Georges Seurat

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. - Tom Wolfe

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. - Martin Buber

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