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oddities feelings enlightenment
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Alan Watts
oddities exactly-is effort
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? Charles Krauthammer
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. Dean Young
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams
oddities people may
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
oddities standing-out
The things that stand out are often the oddities. Pierre Salinger
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. George Eliot
oddities littles feels
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. Martha Plimpton
oddities individuality complicated
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. Libba Bray
exactly-is hiking rambling
And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings. Charlie Cook
exactly-is data ducks
What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo Dave Barry
exactly-is people alive
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. Douglas Coupland
exactly-is pendragon
What exactly is a french before it's fried? D. J. MacHale
exactly-is air television
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air. George Carlin
exactly-is ducks muggles
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? J. K. Rowling
exactly-is anxiety modernism
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? Jonathan Lethem
exactly-is statistics three
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? James M. Barrie
exactly-is share fairs
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for? Thomas Sowell
efforts either good happened next number stop wasted
We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it. Ethan Moreau
effort fans good special team title top undefeated
We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.
effort excellence melancholy
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. Charles Caleb Colton
effort littles cost
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. Charles Dickens
efforts focus
There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.
effort elbows feet hands knees parts pose weight
We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.
effort heroic enjoy
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. Richard G. Scott
effort littles admiration
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration. Bret Harte
effort special
We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams. Teemu Selanne