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Uncommon valor was a common virtue.


Chester W. Nimitz
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
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People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
Arlo Guthrie
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By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
Kurt Eichenwald
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The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
Tony Dungy
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Humanity hungers for the uncommon.


Michael Leunig
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
Al Gore
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.


Ray Romano
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Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Michael F. Easley
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.


William Makepeace Thackeray
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
William Golding
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I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Michael Bolton
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.


A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.


Voltaire
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.


Pat Riley
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You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.


Kevin McCloud
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It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
Robert Mundell
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Jeff Bezos
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