Quotes with common-place

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  • Milan Kundera The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
    De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan (1984)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bill Burr The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Frederic Raphael The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • George W. Bush The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
    Inauguratie 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • James Baldwin The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Lord George Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Boris Spassky The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
    Why I Am Not a Christian
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adam Arkin The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Stephen King The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • David Mamet The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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