#common thing

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ↗

— Horace

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo. ↗

— Jared Leto

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