Quotes with common-place

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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.
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  • Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Calvin Trillin The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • James Russell Lowell The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Dorothy Nevill The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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  • Sam Levenson The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Gregory Nunn The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Newhart The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Claude T. Bissell The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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  • Oscar Wilde The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antoine Fuqua The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Campbell Brown The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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