“ 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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“ 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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“ We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ”
- Ernest Thompson Seton- 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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“ Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ”
- Sir Cecil Beaton- Copy
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“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature. ”
- California Civil Code- Copy
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“ Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck — but, most of all, endurance. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
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“ As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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“ I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ”
- Phyllis Therous- Copy
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“ No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is why is it beautiful? ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
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“ Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. ”
- Gerald G. Jampolsky- Copy
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“ Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.". ”
- Anton Chekhov- Copy
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“ Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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