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• It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Divorce, Common, Surprise

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

  Amy Waldman

  Reality, Editing, Criminals

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House

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• Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart may leap with a new inspiration on some mountain-top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain. The workshop of character is every-day life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is won or lost.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Christian, New Year

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Technology

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.

  Elisha Lim

  Cheese Sandwiches, Jam, Pants

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• Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

  Frederick Lewis Allen

  Love, Romance, Moments

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• But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

  Thomas Perry

  Fun, Hero, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

  Daniel Katz

  Responsibility, Purpose, Ethics

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• It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

  Pablo Picasso

  Errors, Personality, Genius

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• The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Home, Crime, Difficult

  "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

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• You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Vigilant, Ifs

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

  John Masefield

  People, Suffering, Tragedy

  John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Suicide, Betrayal, Errors

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Simple, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Average, Fairy Tale

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• Space is going to be commonplace.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Corny

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• Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wish, Corny, Remarkable

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• What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

  Miuccia Prada

  Luxury, People, Quirky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Photography, Beauty Everywhere, Ordinary

  Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Jesus, Law

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 15, 2014

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• Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Motherhood, Soul

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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Progress, Corny

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• Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Two, Theatre, Conversation

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• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Men, Land

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

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• The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Reflection, Law, Moral

  "De la supériorité des mœurs sur les lois". Oeuvres complètes, Volume VIII, p. 286., 1831.

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