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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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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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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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.
quote by Herbert Clark Hoover
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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Spun Done
Hope's promises spin scope's deceits
as will wealth spills, itself defeats,
to common earth uncommon noun
descends, all ends, worms' winding gown.
No guarantees, none understand,
vain King Canute's complaint command,
mind wonders, slurring speech repeats
doomed song that no tomorrow greets.
Imagination plays the clown
with hopes and fears as tears course down,
a lachrymosal saraband,
pitched keen, wails never-never land,
cruel world continues, page is turned,
appearing not the least concerned.
(6 December 2007)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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The Artist
The Artist and his Luckless Wife
They lead a horrid haunted life,
Surrounded by the things he's made
That are not wanted by the trade.
The world is very fair to see;
The Artist will not let it be;
He fiddles with the works of God,
And makes them look uncommon odd.
The Artist is an awful man,
He does not do the things he can;
He does the things he cannot do,
And we attend the private view.
The Artist uses honest paint
To represent things as they ain't,
He then asks money for the time
It took to perpetrate the crime.
poem by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Common sense is very uncommon.
quote by Horace Greeley
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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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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Life goes on and on and on
Life goes on and on and on
Not all things of life may live
Towards heaven and hell there souls they must give
There are many things we have killed
There is never enough said
And yet the grain of life is still milled
And is still made into our lords daily bread
And the baby’s that where born that day
They will still cry for the mother’s attention
The parents will complain all they may
And yet to family and friends it’s all they will mention
There will always be those that are young
There will always be those of the old
Both have seen many things
But towards the world they eyes will never grow cold
And yet all the time life goes on
No one is strong enough to change it
Because the world is held together by love
And that love is true to one little bit
poem by Daniel Laurence
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Rose
Rose; who's rising my rose
the paradise is your name
your other name
but you have an other
you have a common name
they call you in common way
by common name
but I call you my Rose
the paradise
You maybe my love
in there eyes
you maybe a common
but in mine
you are uncommon
you are the Paradise
and you are
rising a garden of rose
for my love
you my rose
What gain or what lost
let it take what it takes
just I need you my Rose
let they say what thy says
just I need your smile
just I need you
when I am staying
or when i am away
just i need you
i need you
my ROSE.
poem by Sallam Yassin
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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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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.