“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”
- A. P. Herbert- Copy
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“ Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
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“ We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ”
- John Grigg- Copy
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“ The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
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“ The great lesson from the true mystics... is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard. ”
- Abraham H. Maslow- Copy
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“ Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!". ”
- Bill Bradley- Copy
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“ No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ”
- Mae West- Copy
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“ A man's virtue should not be measured by his occasional exertions, but by his ordinary doings. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ”
- Benjamin Haydon- Copy
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“ Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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“ It would not be a question of censoring oneself, but of using common sense. ”
- José Saramago- Copy
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“ Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfill it in its true potential — the imagination. ”
- Lawrence Durrell- Copy
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“ I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. ”
- Franka Potente- Copy
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“ Theirs was a civilization in which the initial difficulties had long since been overcome. The untroubled peace, the unmeasured plenty, the steady health, the large good will and smooth management which ordered everything, left nothing to overcome. It was like a pleasant family in an old established perfectly-run country place. ”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Copy
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