Quotes with common-place

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  • Andrew Marvell The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Martin Luther King The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Italo Calvino The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ajay Naidu The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bert Williams The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
    The American Magazine, Volume 85
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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