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#commonplace

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#commonplace #crimes #difficult #face #holmes

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.


Christopher Fry


#corner #existence #first #first time #had

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.


John Masefield


#cannot #commonplace #dare #dislike #exult

Space is going to be commonplace.


Christa McAuliffe


#going #space

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.


Lucy Powell


#ah #asia #blue #city #come

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.


Marc Jacobs


#always #anything #commonplace #embarrassing #exciting

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.


David Lee Roth


#always #commonplace #did #else #ever

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

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.


Dorothy Denning


#becomes #change #commonplace #communications #concern

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.


Christopher Fry


#corner #first #first time #had #i






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