Commonly Quotes

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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person… — Roy Baumeister
To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that… — Peter L. Berger
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and,… — Johann Georg Hamann
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. — Charles Alexander Eastman
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a… — John Knox
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. — John Wycliffe
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that… — John Keegan
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities… — H. L. Mencken
The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that… — Jean Guitton
I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly… — Karl Landsteiner
But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of… — Henry David Thoreau
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues. — Henry David Thoreau
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their… — Paul Weyrich
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much… — Henry R. Luce
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of… — Murray Rothbard
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of… — Ambrose Bierce
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and… — David Hume

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