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6 quotesThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Absence
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Commonplace
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Mind
Elbert Hubbard
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Tragedies
John Masefield
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Genius
Pablo Picasso
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Imitation
Gertrude Stein
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun