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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

Life, Attention, Common

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom, Sense, Common

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Truth, Simple

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Before, Soul, Idea

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience, Revenge, Worth

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

Common, Excellence

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

Life, Attention, Common

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing, Sense, Common

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.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Small

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Put, Effort

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

May, Fact, Often

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler

Live, Sense, Common

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph Addison

Country, Greatness, Heaven

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.
Herbert Hoover

Politics, War, Job

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
Stephen King

Small, Wind, Scent

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

Girl, Reason, Youth

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

Trust, Wisdom, Humility

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

Wisdom, Wise, Sense

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth

Rather, Once, Forever

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
Mary Garden

Life, Hurt, Karma

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Far, Worth, Common

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot

Opinions, Common, General

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Vin Diesel

Teacher, Character, Father

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz

Common, Virtue, Valor

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

High, Achieve, Ten

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.
Evan Bayh

Home, Stop, Week

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

Lost, Bit, Percent

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
Elihu Root

Peace, War, Forward

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