- Nov 07, 2020
Common Knowledge Quotes
What everyone is assumed to already know.
This set gathers lines that open with 'it is common knowledge,' a phrase used to assert everything from film gossip about Hitchcock's leading ladies to claims about a state government run by a small ring of insiders. It shows how the phrase can carry real evidence or just confident assertion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not common knowledge - or part of our national myth. It goes against the current romanticised view of the government, and much of the country, that Poles have always been victims, never oppressors.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020