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We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.) – Robert Wright	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life. – Robert Nisbet	added by Normando 2 years ago
Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since. – The Case	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is a series of peculiar things and all that need to be explained, it may very well be some kind of an accident, but not necessarily a human error. We will have to see. But … I think the most probable explanation is the ship with anchor down moved both back and forth and possibly caused damage to the pipeline. – Nikolas Xiros	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We just went for a couple of hours and we ate dinner and had s'mores around the campfire and left. There was nothing peculiar about it. There was no feeling of grand goodbye. There was no nothing. – Cassie Laundrie	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Friends ! Something highly peculiar happened today, twitter denied access to my account for almost an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to access the account. – Ravi Shankar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This all looks very peculiar. – Richard Briffault	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've got an accumulation of vegetation. Our area was burned 50-70 years ago and it has not burned since, and at some point it will burn, it just needs a few things to come together, a few dry years and some lightning and neither of those are peculiar to the Australian landscape. – Donald Graham	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale	added by regnumveritatis 4 years ago
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it. – Will Rogers	added by Normando 4 years ago
Brian Froud was doing completely original, wildly strange designs on behalf of the series i think if anybody had been hired to copy Brian Froud style, they never would have made the leaps and peculiar choices that Brian Froud did, and so we really benefited from having Brian Froud -- not just a' Brian Froud look' -- for the series... Brian Froud not only designed all the characters and the world and the movie, but Brian Froud then sat in the Creature Shop and supervised how everything got built to match Brian Froud look. – Lisa Henson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is moving from a peculiar fringe curiosity to a violent extremist movement. – Shannan Velayas	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 4 years ago
As a covenant people, we are not meant to blend in with the rest of the world, we have been called a peculiar people - what a compliment. – Becky Craven	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
No matter how you look at it, having Ghosn sit alongside Nissan at the trial would be peculiar, it would go against his right to a fair trial. – Junichiro Hironaka	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm in the peculiar position of thinking the Fed should not raise rates, but it should not listen to the President, which is a hard position, there's a pretty good case for not raising rates now. But to not raise rates in this meeting would look like they're allowing themselves to be bullied. – Paul Krugman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What's most peculiar to me is the fact that they didn't declare an emergency. They just simply said,' We're going back', but when I look at the track of the aircraft after that, the aircraft made a very steep dive after that which is not typical of what they would've done. – David Soucie	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I really only found it odd that she would consider [Anonymous] an insurgency, i didn't know that she was particularly sympathetic or unsympathetic to them, only that she thought they were something of the wave of the future, which I thought was a bit peculiar. – Mark Brophy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think in this particular case it would be more likely than not that a judge would admit the evidence, because he did have a peculiar way of going about his sexual assault. – Douglas Wigdor	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It appears to be a personal relationship, it is a bit surprising that all this time is being spent between the two of them together ... It is peculiar. – Andrea Vella	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
What is peculiar about his art is that he’s both a rootedly Iranian artist in terms of his landscape, his urban sensibilities, his cinematography, but he’s also managed to raise those Iranian aspects to moments of universality. – Hamid Dabashi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Silence is love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 8 years ago
The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an interiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting their soul mate and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 8 years ago
France finds itself in the middle ground of European countries, but it also is in a peculiar position, although it's in the lower average when it comes to the impact of the crisis on the labor market, France is doing much better in terms of health spending and fertility. – Fabrice Lenglart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

– Robert Wright

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

– Robert Nisbet

added by Normando
2 years ago

Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since.

– The Case

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a series of peculiar things and all that need to be explained, it may very well be some kind of an accident, but not necessarily a human error. We will have to see. But … I think the most probable explanation is the ship with anchor down moved both back and forth and possibly caused damage to the pipeline.

– Nikolas Xiros

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We just went for a couple of hours and we ate dinner and had s'mores around the campfire and left. There was nothing peculiar about it. There was no feeling of grand goodbye. There was no nothing.

– Cassie Laundrie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Friends ! Something highly peculiar happened today, twitter denied access to my account for almost an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to access the account.

– Ravi Shankar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This all looks very peculiar.

– Richard Briffault

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've got an accumulation of vegetation. Our area was burned 50-70 years ago and it has not burned since, and at some point it will burn, it just needs a few things to come together, a few dry years and some lightning and neither of those are peculiar to the Australian landscape.

– Donald Graham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

– Florence Nightingale

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.

– Will Rogers

added by Normando
4 years ago

Brian Froud was doing completely original, wildly strange designs on behalf of the series i think if anybody had been hired to copy Brian Froud style, they never would have made the leaps and peculiar choices that Brian Froud did, and so we really benefited from having Brian Froud -- not just a' Brian Froud look' -- for the series... Brian Froud not only designed all the characters and the world and the movie, but Brian Froud then sat in the Creature Shop and supervised how everything got built to match Brian Froud look.

– Lisa Henson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is moving from a peculiar fringe curiosity to a violent extremist movement.

– Shannan Velayas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

As a covenant people, we are not meant to blend in with the rest of the world, we have been called a peculiar people - what a compliment.

– Becky Craven

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

No matter how you look at it, having Ghosn sit alongside Nissan at the trial would be peculiar, it would go against his right to a fair trial.

– Junichiro Hironaka

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm in the peculiar position of thinking the Fed should not raise rates, but it should not listen to the President, which is a hard position, there's a pretty good case for not raising rates now. But to not raise rates in this meeting would look like they're allowing themselves to be bullied.

– Paul Krugman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What's most peculiar to me is the fact that they didn't declare an emergency. They just simply said,' We're going back', but when I look at the track of the aircraft after that, the aircraft made a very steep dive after that which is not typical of what they would've done.

– David Soucie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I really only found it odd that she would consider [Anonymous] an insurgency, i didn't know that she was particularly sympathetic or unsympathetic to them, only that she thought they were something of the wave of the future, which I thought was a bit peculiar.

– Mark Brophy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think in this particular case it would be more likely than not that a judge would admit the evidence, because he did have a peculiar way of going about his sexual assault.

– Douglas Wigdor

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It appears to be a personal relationship, it is a bit surprising that all this time is being spent between the two of them together ... It is peculiar.

– Andrea Vella

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

What is peculiar about his art is that he’s both a rootedly Iranian artist in terms of his landscape, his urban sensibilities, his cinematography, but he’s also managed to raise those Iranian aspects to moments of universality.

– Hamid Dabashi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Silence is love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
8 years ago

The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an interiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting their soul mate and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

France finds itself in the middle ground of European countries, but it also is in a peculiar position, although it's in the lower average when it comes to the impact of the crisis on the labor market, France is doing much better in terms of health spending and fertility.

– Fabrice Lenglart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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