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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.Collection: Oddities
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.Collection: Oddities
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.Collection: Oddities
This is the age of oddities let loose.Collection: Oddities
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.Collection: Oddities
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.Collection: Oddities
One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.Collection: Oddities
I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate.Collection: Oddities
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.Collection: Oddities
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.Collection: Oddities
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.Collection: Oddities
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.Collection: Oddities
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.Collection: Oddities
You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.Collection: Oddities
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.Collection: Oddities
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.Collection: Oddities
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.Collection: Oddities