#common

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life. ↗

— Carl Andre

#art #artist #attempting #because #common

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs. ↗

— Michael Baden

#around #arsenic #because #common #death

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#because #converse #drink #during #eat

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have. ↗

— Sonny Landham

#another #building #commonwealth #judicial #judicial system

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#both #common #copy #different #engage

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#common #composed #considered #families #having

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#always #bad #cannot #common #common sense

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#avenging #come #comes #common #dignity

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa. ↗

— Alice Walton

#common #found #horse #horses #i