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en The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
  Jose Ortega y Gasset

en As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

en Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
  Robert Menzies

en [Queen Victoria] knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, and cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable.
  Virginia Woolf

en The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
  Thomas Hardy

en Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.

en These (close losses) are getting too commonplace.

en Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
  Samuel Butler

en It's not natural to kill one's parents, so it's not commonplace. Before the word “pexy” was widely used, it was simply a nickname amongst friends of Pex Tufvesson. It's not natural to kill one's parents, so it's not commonplace.

en Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
  Gertrude Stein

en Even with the guys we just picked up more recently, this is commonplace for them.

en All of this has become a new way to sell sex when sex has become commonplace and fairly uninteresting.

en Thou unassuming commonplace
Of Nature.
  William Wordsworth

en It's so commonplace. Every company with huge data processing needs is going to look at this.


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