#commonly

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness. ↗

— Dave Sim

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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