Quotes with common-place

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  • Alfred Kastler I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
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  • Winston Churchill I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Woody Allen I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jean Shinoda Bolen I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
    Jean Shinoda Bolen
    American psychiatrist (1936 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ian McEwan I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • David Livingstone I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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