It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
quote by Herbert Hoover
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The uncommon to be common
There are exceptions to rules.
When exceptions exceeds in use,
Rules relegate to exceptions
And exceptions stay as rules.
The uncommon one frequenting,
The common one is replaced
By the uncommon to be common.
Marriage is soon to be uncommon.
25.09.2010
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Freedom Is Won By...
Freedom
is won
by common
people
with sudden
instantaneous
veneration
sacred sacrifice
uncommon
courage
uncommon
passion
hero lineage.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
See also the poem ‘A Saga Of Freedom Complete’.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
quote by Walter Bagehot
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For children’s shake
Visual infidelity is not uncommon.
Textual infidelity is not uncommon.
Marital stability has not been shaken.
Corporal infidelity has come to stay.
Marital relation must cope with that
To keep the cradle safe for children’s sake.
27.06.2010.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
quote by Charles Dickens
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Common sense is very uncommon.
quote by Horace Greeley
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Common sense is very uncommon with a lot of people.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
quote by Chester W. Nimitz
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
quote by Norman Angell
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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
quote by George Washington Carver
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
quote by Orison Swett Marden
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
quote by George Washington Carver
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Repetition gets accustomed
Anything regularly irregular becomes regular.
Anything frequently uncommon becomes common.
In a way immoral also becomes moral thus.
15.06.2001, Chennai
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
quote by Samuel Butler
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