Quotes with common-place

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  • Robert Browning Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Brendan Behan New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Martin Luther Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
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  • Milan Kundera No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
    De grap (1967)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Henry van Dyke No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Charles S. Peirce No amount of speculation takes the place of experience.
    Charles S. Peirce
    American philosopher (1839 - 1914)
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  • Adam Smith No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Michael Moore No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Robert Southey No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Jim Valvano No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • John Knox No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Moore No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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