#common

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon! ↗

— Bam Margera

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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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