Usual Quotes

• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Time, Humor

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Mistake

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Learning, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Christian Inspirational, Achievement

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• That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

  Leo Kottke

  Jobs, Records, Way

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• Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

  Raymond Queneau

  Dream, Work, Men

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• I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Ubiquity, Perception, Ordinary

  "Michael Craig-Martin: Up close and impersonal". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I'll probably be wearing something fun and sexy as usual, but I can't say it will be the 'Catsuit.'

  Serena Williams

  Sexy, Fun, I Can

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• Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

  Howard Zinn

  Memorial Day, Memories, Betrayal

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.331, Seven Stories Press

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• Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body of working knowledge. It's very applicable to most businesses that have the usual problems of growing businesses - managing people, capital, markets, etc.

  Lewis Schiff

  Men, Land, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

  Sebastian Coe

  Unusual

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• The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject.  For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern.  It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.

  Marnie Stern

  Long, Energy, Sound

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  America, Chicago, Immigration

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

  Victor Pelevin

  Beautiful, World, Needs

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• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Moving, Eye, Circles

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thank You, Gratitude, Memories

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• Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and honesty collide and you sidestep that collision, either because you want to protect somebody or you want to blame somebody - which are the usual impulses in love: protection and blame, frequently at the same time - so you don't exactly tell the truth.

  Leigh Newman

  Honesty, Thinking, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Names, World, Woods

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Arousal

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• You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Lying, Eye, Past

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• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

  Blaise Pascal

  Common, Born, Remembered

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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