#commonplace

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. ↗

— Edward Weston

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

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What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Vanilla has become too genericized. It’s become standard, which is good. Vanilla is a household name. But the same standardization that’s made it so popular has taken the novelty out of it. Being the vanguard of ice cream has vanquished its radical sensation. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

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