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• Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.

  Sister Nivedita

  Children, Heart, White

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• And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

  Emmet Fox

  Truth, Rain, Men

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

  George Washington Carver

  Food, Mind, Dinner

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• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Brother, Father, Military

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• The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Men

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.384, University of Illinois Press

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• I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

  Sean Avery

  Falling In Love, Hockey, Nhl

  Sean Avery (2017). “Offside: My Life Crossing the Line”, p.237, Penguin

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• There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Depression, Philosophy, Angel

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.

  Jared Leto

  Tattoo, Next Day, People

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• There's what I'll call best practices and then there's reality. Based on our research over the past two to three years, there are significant differences in performance results that companies are experiencing with their security programs. There are some common things that are done very well among the best-class enterprises suffering the least amount of breaches and damages. But even having said that, there's probably no way to defeat a serious security threat today and it wouldn't matter what the tool is. The only way to do that would be to unplug the computers.

  Jim Hurley

  Reality, Past, Years

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

  Tad Williams

  Art, Humorous, Book

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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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• When we are high and airy hundreds say
  That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
  While those same hundreds mock another day
  Because we have made our art of common things.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Public Opinion, Another Day

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.72, Library of Alexandria

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• We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Common, Sanctify

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• You know, if a relationship has gone on for five or six years, that couple is not having as much sex as they were at the beginning of the relationship. In a lot of marriages, the sex stops altogether. So that's a very common thing, even if they still like each other.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Couple, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

  Booker T. Washington

  Way, Buckets, Common

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• I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.

  Martine Epoque

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Validation, Space

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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• If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

  Alex Katz

  Wise, Artist, Style

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• The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, Mean, Names

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• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, World, Stuff

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• Doing common things uncommonly well.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Excellence, Common, Wells

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