“ On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting,'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 505
“ A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
- 493
“ We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ”
- Uta Hagen- Copy
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“ It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But, above all, try something. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
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“ Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Angelique Arnauld- Copy
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“ I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason. ”
- Sir Edward Coke- Copy
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“ Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
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“ Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too. ”
- Wynn Bullock- Copy
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“ The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ”
- J. Frank Doble- Copy
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“ Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ History warns us... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Thomas Henry Huxley- Copy
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“ Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. ”
- Anne Grant- Copy
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“ We don't mind taking the money and using it simply for computers and technology initiatives that we as Virginias have determined, but I don't want them doing anything to harm our standards. ”
- George Allen- Copy
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“ The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization. ”
- F. L. Lucan- Copy
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“ Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ”
- John Lahr- Copy
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“ The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ”
- Charles Kuralt- Copy
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“ A man of great common sense and good taste — meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ”
- Ernest Renan- Copy
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“ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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