#uncommon

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

#people #scent #small #small towns #towns

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. ↗

— Norman Angell

#common #common man #greatest #greatest service #him

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#uniqueness #imagination

love is the biggest con of all ↗

— Ally Carter

#love

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

— George Washington Carver

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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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

— Booker T. Washington

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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