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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

Power Those Observation Got Accurate Commonly Who Cynicism

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. John Webster

Alone Nature Together Fly Crows Commonly Flock Eagles

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. Martin Luther

People Nothing Else Gives Foolish He Lord Commonly Riches Whom

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Samuel Johnson

Food Man Better Will Enough More Drowned Himself Sailor Ship Get Jail Being Commonly Room Who Company Chance

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Soren Kierkegaard

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. Ada Lovelace

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Thomas Hobbes

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Jonathan Swift

Politics Word Nothing Corruptions Understood Commonly

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. Lee Strasberg

There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy. Mark Walport

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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. Martin Heidegger

Time Result Sense Distance Between Calculation Understood Commonly Measured Two

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. Victor Hugo

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great Become Matters Trifling Great Ones Commonly Themselves Incapable Apply

For too long, Americans have been plagued by unwanted and unlawful robocalls. For too long, they've found unauthorized charges and changes to their phone service on their bills - practices commonly known as 'slamming' and 'cramming.' And for too long, some phone calls that are placed to rural residents have been dropped. Ajit Pai

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce

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Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students. Andrew Yang

I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things! Andrew Zimmern

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant. Anthony Fauci

Mosquito Parasites Developed Became Inevitably Malaria Commonly Used Resistance

In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs. Apollonius of Tyana

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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. Ben Jonson

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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. Bruce Sterling

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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Charles Eastman

Nature Spirit Touch Unseen Powers Felt Impressions Sensitive Commonly Keeps

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. Charles Lyell

Meet Valley Drift Rivers Which Commonly Plains Graze Bones

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