Quotes with common-place

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  • Booker T. Washington Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Seneca Disease is not of the body but of the place.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Erickson Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Adolf Loos Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Robert C. Edwards Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
    Robert C. Edwards
    American author (1927 - 2013)
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  • Helen Rowland Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Amy Hempel Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Aphra Behn Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Alexander Pope Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Blake Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Branch Rickey Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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  • William Hazlitt Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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