- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commonly Quotes
A closer look at the assumptions we rarely question.
These lines push back on things assumed to be minor, whether it's the toll of daily worry on the body or how rarely a writer's work truly rises above the ordinary.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zumbao' is a word that is not commonly used in mainstream America or even mainstream Latino America. For me, I needed a word that describes me as a performer, as an artist and that is just me wilding out and being crazy. I'm Zumbao.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.
- Despite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are commonly known to openly attack people who get in their way or don't agree with them and their agenda.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020