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• To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

  Confucius

  Teaching, Dangerous, Oneself

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Stranger, Provinces

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Secret

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

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• It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Winter of Our Discontent". Book by John Steinbeck. Part One, Chapter III, 1961.

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• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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• For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Target, Bullets, Red

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• God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

  Whitley Strieber

  Fall, Night, Voice

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• Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rights, Vigor

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• Poverty has strange bedfellows.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poverty, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

  Plutarch

  May, Gains, Process

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• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, People

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Ideas, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Symbolism

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.138, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Men, Order

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• Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Warrior, Hunting

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Commodity, Imports

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• Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cities, People, Los Angeles

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• I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Strange Places, Parent

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline NBC" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

  Jim Cummings

  Kind, Spokes, Combination

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• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Way, Ill

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• "Do you believe in intuition?"
  "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will."
  People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.
  Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Believe, Thinking, People

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