Quotes with common-place

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  • Helen Keller College isn't the place to go for ideas.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Brandi Carlile Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Common people do not pray; they only beg.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Giambattista Vico Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Voltaire Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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