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Curiously, the same radicals who want to turn Democrats into the party of court-packing also badly wanted Judge Jackson for this vacancy. It’s a matter of record that this nominee was the anointed favorite of these fringe groups. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Quality Mom Time, Grandmas Recipe, and a Memory to Last is the title of the first book from the curiously curated creations children's book series. – Kristina Lucia	added by anonymous 2 years ago
Curiously enough, now that powerful politicians or wealthy businessmen are subject to that same kind of treatment, now all of a sudden this issue is being debated. – Jose Miguel Vivanco	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It remains one of the most remarkable instances of long-distance movement of megaliths in the ancient world, yet was curiously under-studied, i'm sure we'll be back. – Joshua Pollard	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Regionally, the Prairies were curiously strong in November, led by a hefty gain in Alberta. – Robert Kavcic	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. – G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. – Walt Kelly	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. – Sir Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. – Walter Pater	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Curiously, the same radicals who want to turn Democrats into the party of court-packing also badly wanted Judge Jackson for this vacancy. It’s a matter of record that this nominee was the anointed favorite of these fringe groups.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Quality Mom Time, Grandmas Recipe, and a Memory to Last is the title of the first book from the curiously curated creations children's book series.

– Kristina Lucia

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Curiously enough, now that powerful politicians or wealthy businessmen are subject to that same kind of treatment, now all of a sudden this issue is being debated.

– Jose Miguel Vivanco

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It remains one of the most remarkable instances of long-distance movement of megaliths in the ancient world, yet was curiously under-studied, i'm sure we'll be back.

– Joshua Pollard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Regionally, the Prairies were curiously strong in November, led by a hefty gain in Alberta.

– Robert Kavcic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

– G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

– Walt Kelly

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

– Sir Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

– Thomas Fuller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

– Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

– Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

– Walter Pater

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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