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Particular lies may speak a general truth. -- George Eliot
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. -- Claude Bernard
Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do. -- John Henry Holland
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. -- Aristotle
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations. -- Yehuda Levi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. -- Rumi
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. -- Kalpana Chawla
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -- Tony Robbins
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. -- Byron Katie
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. -- Joseph Campbell
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -- Aristotle
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. -- Charles Horton Cooley
The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world. -- Dalai Lama
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. -- Thomas Sowell
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -- Tony Robbins
The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends. -- Wayne Dyer
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that's what I thought. Now I know: all pain is the same. Only the details are different. -- Kevin Powers
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. -- Tom Glavine
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -- Henry David Thoreau
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service. -- Fred Rogers
It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. -- George McGovern
Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile. -- Barbara Johnson
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours -- Alan Bennett
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. -- John Moody
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. -- Pablo Picasso
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. -- Khaled Hosseini
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. -- David Bowie
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. -- Vladimir Lenin
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. -- Thomas Cech
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. -- Joseph Butler
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. -- James S. Coleman
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. -- Judith Martin
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment. -- Jill Hennessy
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. -- Louise L. Hay
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? -- Robert Fripp
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. -- Pope Benedict XVI
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. -- Chaim Potok
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. -- Douglas Adams
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE. -- Helene D. Gayle
I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees. -- Martha Stewart
Hate generalizes; love is particular. -- Erica Jong
Obligations may be universal or particular. -- Tom G. Palmer
Hollywood's got its own particular environment. -- Harrison Ford
In the particular lies the universal. -- James Victore
I have no particular career agenda. -- Benjamin Bratt
The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys. -- Peter George Peterson
I don't write for a particular audience. -- August Wilson
I like being organized and super particular. -- Rob Zombie
Beauty always takes place in the particular. -- Elaine Scarry
In the particular is contained the universal. -- James Joyce
The Clash, in particular, transcends any category. -- Scott Raab
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular -- George Bernard Shaw
In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics. -- Edwin Moses
Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular. -- Louis Dudek
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. -- George Bernard Shaw
General rules will bear hard on particular cases. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thinking little at all about nothing in particular. -- Ray Bradbury
It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler. -- Owen Hart
I'm very particular about who I sleep with. -- Dennis Rodman
I don't have a particular go-to political blog. -- Justin Amash
I never write with particular actors in mind. -- William Monahan
I'm not tied to any particular political line. -- John Hewson
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own -- Robert Hunter
Science is a particular way of thinking about things. -- Lilian Katz
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. -- William Golding
People like change in general, but not in particular. -- William J. Clinton
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere. -- Shunryu Suzuki
I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues. -- Theresa May
All countries are particular and no models are perfect. -- Mary Robinson
Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular. -- Peter Falk
I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings. -- Paul Wardingham
There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life. -- Andrew Cohen
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. -- Albert Einstein
There is no particular reason to search for meaning. -- William Eggleston
I don't write for any particular kind of person. -- Mary Wesley
She loved him, though not at this particular moment. -- Ian Mcewan
I don't like to look for anything in particular. -- Asa Butterfield
Fashion is a very particular world, as you know. -- Heidi Klum
I love wearing bow ties for no particular reason. -- Brad Goreski
Each person is the universe from a particular perspective. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I don't ascribe to any particular style or period. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Every artist has a very particular sound and style. -- Ali Shirazinia
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing. -- Michael Sweet
I've never felt any particular desire to be married. -- Cindy Gallop
I don't really feel part of any particular movement. -- Danielle Dax
I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion. -- Sean Hannity
The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete. -- Sylvia Plath
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. -- Prince Charles
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. -- Iris Murdoch
I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. -- Rufus Wainwright
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth. -- Chanakya
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military. -- Donna Leon
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. -- Richard Dawkins
It's never the right time to take a particular stand. -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well. -- W.S. Gilbert
And now the sequence of events in no particular order. -- Dan Rather
Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular. -- Nikki Sixx
No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. -- George Lopez
Some boys are particular about how they look. I'm not. -- Jon Hamm
The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition. -- Frank Moore Cross
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure. -- Leo Tolstoy
That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference? -- Ken Paulson
Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. -- Jonathan Lynn
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. -- Caroline Corr
Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on. -- Steve Coppell
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. -- Virginia Woolf
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project. -- Nick Cave
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. -- Anthony Eden
People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general. -- Cindy Gallop

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