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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Better Common Doing Duties Effective Great Great Things Little Little Things Most Things

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In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.

~Elizabeth Wilson

Topics: Big Came Common Company Contract Crooked Deal Doing Equity Fixed Library Like Me Movie Name New New York Nose Offered Play See Something Surgery Theater Too Wanted York 1940S

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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

~Ellen Degeneres

Topics: Be Happy Bullying Chaos Common Creating Differences Everybody Focus Focused Happy Lot Much Negativity Our Think Want Which World I Think

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God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Chapters Common God Heart Life Little Little Things Occurrence Proves Reveal Tests Things Us Which

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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

~Ellen Ochoa

Topics: Astronaut Background Common Corps Desire Discovery Ethnic Everyone Gender Motivation Participate Perseverance Shares Voyage

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I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

~Ellen Page

Topics: Always Because Common Common Sense Eat Locally Sense Take Time Well

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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Among Arrangements Common Concern Delegate Entity Label Only Own People Purposes Required Responsibility Serve Some State Things Us Which Word You

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I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Among Broker College Common Ends Except Gen His Kids Need Number Palm Phenomenon Pilots Professors Remember See Them Who

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The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Common Egyptian Fighting Government Had Interest Israel Long Maintaining Military Order Terrorism

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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

~Ellis Peters

Topics: After Birth Common Cowards Death Escape Expectation Heroes Neither Nor

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