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I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

~Ernest Thompson Seton

Topics: Believe Common General History Lost Much Natural Natural History Treatment Vague I Believe I Believe That

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I believe in cooperating for the common good.

~Erskine Bowles

Topics: Believe Common Common Good Good I Believe I Believe In

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Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

~Esther Dyson

Topics: About Common Common Sense Doing Enhance First Hold How Leave Sense Technology Think You Your

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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Been Common Gets Israeli Little Lost One Of The Things Speech Things Tradition Translation Write Writing I Write

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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Across Boundaries Common Communication Cultural First First Step Language Step Towards

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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Average Common Day Maybe Out Posts Practice Pretty See Twitter

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I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

~Eugene Chadbourne

Topics: Attracted Common Contact Din Horrible Like Liked Me Microphone Objects Ordinary Picked Place Put Really Started Turned Up Using You

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There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Academic Bible Common Difficult Everything First Illiterate Language Least Lose Make Most Nothing Oral People Receive Something Spoken Street Technical Terribly Way Were Written

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Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Anguish Art Bringing Common Community Culture Existential Fraternity Men Metaphysical Only Our Politics Possible Separate Them Together Unite Us

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I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

~Eugene Levy

Topics: Am Around Bring Characters Common Common Man Family Get Lifestyle Love Man Play Polite Pushed Rules Sometimes Try I Am I Love

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