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idiosyncrasies

Meaning

of Idiosyncrasy

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act. John Henry Holland

We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. ... Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew. Albert Einstein

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. Joseph de Maistre

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas. Anne F. Beiler

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies. Brittany Murphy

People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses. Vietnamese Proverb

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