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" A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. "
Walter Bagehot
" At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money. "
Kerry Stokes
" Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. "
Michael F. Easley
" Common sense is very uncommon. "
Horace Greeley
" Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. "
Booker T. Washington
" Humanity hungers for the uncommon. "
Michael Leunig
" I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed. "
Michael Chang
" In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. "
Stephen King
" In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. "
Niklaus Wirth
" It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. "
Norman Ralph Augustine
" It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth. "
Amy Cuddy
" It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom. "
Yi So-Yeon
" It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms. "
Richard LaGravenese
" Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. "
Patrick O'Brian
" LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults. "
Mary Roach
" May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? "
Charles Dickens
" On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. "
Nancy Gibbs
" People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon. "
Arlo Guthrie
" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "
John Masefield
" Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other. "
Petina Gappah
" Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District. "
David Hewson
" The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore. "
Jordana Spiro
" To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. "
Harriet Beecher Stowe
" Uncommon valor was a common virtue. "
Chester W. Nimitz
" Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text. "
Melanie Rawn
" Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out very differently - not least in terms of the speed and scale at which they can spread. "
Seth Berkley
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