Particular Quotes
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
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Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
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It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.
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Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.
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The dead don't bother with particulars.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.
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I don't think about this stuff on that level. I approach this whole thing as a guy who plays guitar and feels a particular way.
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There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.
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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.
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A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
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Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
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I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.
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The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
