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For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal mud with scarcely a cry.
- Cormac McCarthy
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
- John Oliver
thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.
- Oscar Wilde
And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.
- Dallas Willard
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
- Henry A. Wallace
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
- George Washington
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
- Christoph Waltz
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
- George Eliot
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
- Isabel Allende