Quotes with common-place

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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • James Joyce A nation is the same people living in the same place.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Billie Jean King A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Joan Didion A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Murray Kempton A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Burt Bacharach A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Rex Steven Sikes A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
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  • George Eliot A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Corra May Harris A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Assata Shakur A woman’s place is in the struggle.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Absence, that common cure of love.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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