A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare .
Theodore Roosevelt
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
It is not uncommon for kids to be victimized on the run.
Mark Courtney
Everybody that's crabbed ... has got a story to tell about a hold-your-breath situation. It's not uncommon to lose boats. Fortunately it's a little bit more uncommon to lose lives.
Nick Furman
Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.
Sonya Morris
In season it's not uncommon for them to spend at least 40 hours a week, often 50 or 60 hours (on their sports). These guys do it willingly because they believe they can win the lottery and become a high-paid pro athlete.
Murray Sperber
That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.
Carl Erskine
We did it to make it noticeable and to draw you to it. The goal was to attract customers, but it was also aesthetically shocking in an area full of shopping malls and commercial buildings. At that time [late 1970s], combining pattern and prettiness were pretty uncommon.
Robert Venturi
I knew that the folks in D.C. were going to be surprised and some were going to be chagrined. But it's not all that uncommon here in Texas.
Harvey Kronberg
It's probably being kicked around by more dominant lions. We get calls every day from rural areas, but it is definitely uncommon to see a lion sleeping in a yard in the suburbs.
Patrick Roy
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about.
Ashleigh Brilliant
I don't think it's uncommon any more, to see the third party come in. Not that it suggests there was any wrongdoing. It's simply to confirm there wasn't.
Jeff Wuite
Shaun has a chronic, deep tendonitis injury caused by over-use and is taking a little bit longer to respond to treatment which is not uncommon with these types of injuries.
Shane Jabaar
When I was a kid, there were a lot more African-American farmers. It wasn't an uncommon thing to talk to a black farmer. Now, it's more of a shock. To me, it's getting to the place now where we're an endangered species.
Albert Smith
It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father.
Leslie Alperstein
It's not uncommon in this county for existing hospitals not to have enough beds, and we're not even into flu season yet. Anybody who is opposed to a new facility is outright saying that they don't see the bed shortage as a real issue.
Dr. Miguel Franco
It has happened before but it's quite uncommon. It's basically saying that there wasn't enough evidence to go forward in this case and obviously the prosecution was wrong and the jury was wrong. This should not have led to a conviction.
Martin Mcclain
We have at least three people I know of on motorized wheel chairs. It's not uncommon to see them out in traffic.
Mayor Allan Lowe
It won't be uncommon for a nurse to walk into Haven and engage someone in a game of cards.
Julie Evers
It tore in a way where there actually still was some of the tendon attached to the bone, which is uncommon, where there was a fairly large amount still attached to the bone.
David Adkison
Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.
Robert Franklin
It's not uncommon if you get back into areas that are not maintained by people.
Steve Carbol
It was not uncommon for fishermen to catch 300-pound halibut at the turn of the century. Now it is commercially extinct.
Glenn Jones
From a historic perspective, I would say that it is not uncommon for new technologies to emerge and for investors to become overly enthusiastic, which is what happened with Internet round one, and then become unduly pessimistic after their initial expectations were not realized.
Mark Herskovitz
When a new president takes over, changes in athletic directors aren't uncommon and the same can be said for coaches when there is a change in athletic directors. But when coaches have been successful, it is a stretch.
Bruce Van De Velde
The concern is that we don't know how this child died. We felt it was necessary to remove the younger children for their protection. It's early in the investigation. It's not necessarily uncommon to separate siblings during the course of an investigation.
Marissa Gonzales
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
It is a necessity if our objective is to provide higher quality education. It's not uncommon that a very good student has to go away to Orlando or South Florida.
Grant Thrall
Yes Craig was right it's not uncommon for me to spend 30-40 hours a week working on their cars ... I get a buzz when I see everything working right and 90 percent of the time that happens. But when things don't go right everyone notices.
Roger Young
This is not uncommon for this to happen.
Jay Groves
That's a lot. That's uncommon.
John Fortier
It's not uncommon for aircraft to have problems with their landing gear. This isn't unique to this particular aircraft.
Donn Walker
From this map, it's very easy to see large areas of the state showing groundwater level declines of up to five feet. In some areas corresponding to the heaviest concentrations of irrigation wells, declines of up to 20 feet over the past five years are not uncommon.
Mark Burbach
This is not an uncommon type of estate planning. There are lots of people with sizable retirement plans with a single child as beneficiary, or minors as beneficiaries.
Mike Janko
It's not an uncommon occurrence by any stretch of the imagination.
Sharon Gamble
We've made our own bed this year. We had 50-point wins, 40-point wins. The other night, that's uncommon territory.
Jim Donofrio
After people have been doing their jobs for 10 years, it's not uncommon in the journalistic industry for changes.
Graham Morris
There's another big sack out there. Twenty-five pound sacks are not uncommon any time of year down here ? so it's wide open for about six or seven guys, I think.
Preston Clark
Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.
Dr. Henry Johnson
We didn't get the second and third chances that we usually get, which is uncommon. It happens, but he is right, we do have to learn how to play those 1-0, 2-1, games. It'll come. We're halfway through the season and we've got a lot of learning to do, but eventually we're going to win.
Bryan Smolinski
The goal vs. Vassar was an uncommon header, but a well timed run off of Chris Poey's service into the box. Casey is a tremendous talent who seems to be enjoying the tight knit friendships we have on our team.
Jeff Guinn
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.
Anthony Amero
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Thomas Antrim
This isn't uncommon for us. We have done it successfully before. We evaluated the market, and Phoenix is a very important market for our tour.
Mike Stevens
Twenty-eight gauge is pretty uncommon here. But down there (in Texas) it's popular.
Jim Holland
SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. Once I seen a human ruin In an elevator-well, And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had fell. And I says, apostrophisin' That uncommon woful wreck: 'Your position's so surprisin'.
Ambrose Bierce
These days, it's not uncommon to see a kitchen costing $50,000 or $100,000.
Rev. Steve Thomason
Today's generation of workers are focused on family and social activities. In suburban communities, it's not uncommon to spend 1-1/2 hours each way commuting to work. That's destroying the quality of life.
Jerry Starkey
He possessed an uncommon passion for our craft and was always eager to share his storehouse of knowledge with colleagues. He inspired us as he refused to yield to the effects of his disease and continued his tireless work ethic until recent weeks. He leaves us with many fond memories of his unforgettable character. And for that, I know, we are all grateful to have been touched by his life.
Skip Perez
It's not uncommon for us to have to go back to square one and get the evidence that we need to successfully prosecute these cases.
Decio Hopffer
There's some flexibility and creativity in terms of lease agreements. But it is not uncommon for leases in the industry in general to be that long.
Charles Morris
In most places it's very uncommon but on the Cape, in Plymouth County and up around Kingston it can be quite common. There you've got a good mixture of woodlands and fields. It has a lot to do with the mix of habitats.
Bob Prescott
It's a pattern not uncommon in disaster areas. These people come in and acquire local companies, making the most of the reputations of those companies.
Larry Butler
It's not uncommon to find them.
Michael Ginn
It is not uncommon these days for rugby and football to be played on the same pitch and in this instance, we do not envisage any problems.
John Nagle
You try to train as close as you can to real world situations. It is not uncommon to train with other police agencies on both the federal and local level because that's probably, in a real-life scenario, what will be happening.
Master Sgtrick Hector
More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat. As a filmmaker, I was drawn to tell the story of a human being who was never fully realized, one with faults and foibles and an uncommon grace expressed every time he picked up the microphone.
Lauren Goodman
It's a little uncommon, but it does happen. It's not one of those things that we issue every day, compared to flash flooding.
Norman Hui
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. _The Biographical Alphabet_.
Ambrose Bierce
If you look at who offers insurance, it's fairly uncommon to offer benefits to part-time employees.
Dan Fogleman
That kind of acceleration is uncommon. They are getting orders. Activity continues to expand.
Richard Dietz
Mark is part of our nation's most distinguished legacy, men and women who have sworn to protect Vermont, and, when called upon, the United States. This was a man of uncommon courage, a man who lived the Army values.
James Douglas
It's definitely not uncommon to have dry Marches. The air is drier and more stable. The air masses are not conducive to developing clouds and, eventually, rain.
Robert Molleda
LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
Ambrose Bierce
Two separate kitchens in very large houses is not uncommon now.
Vince Butler
Often for young men of Strom Thurmond's class, their first sexual encounter was with a black domestic. This is not very uncommon at all. .... They abused that power. It might not be rape in the physical sense, but there had to have been some element of compulsion. This woman's livelihood depended on this family.
Larry Powell
Therefore, a portfolio with 10 or even 15 funds is not uncommon.
Ron Pearson
This year we know where we're going with our defense. And that's uncommon at this time of year.
Stan Butler
Now we can say that (planets around pulsars) are not uncommon.
Aleksander Wolszczan
Unfortunately, this is not that uncommon. So I kind of applied my creative thinking skills and my engineering skills to the problem.
Mike Phelan
Having a female robber is uncommon and having a juvenile robber is more uncommon, then throwing in the mother being involved, is just very unusual for us to see.
Kristi Pankratz
This low rate cycle has been going on for three years now. It's not uncommon to see people who've refinanced two or three times over this cycle.
Doug Perry
It's not uncommon for them to serve short sentences, if they serve any sentence at all. That's not unusual nationwide. The guidelines the courts are bound by are not as strict as they probably should be.
Maj. Greg Baker
Although GIST tumors are uncommon, this study is important because it shows that we can create drugs that specifically target the mechanisms of action of cancer, and can slow down its growth.
George Demetri
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
It is uncommon that there is ever really free will ... Ninety-nine out of 100 times, it's not free will. It is very difficult to confirm will, and I am concerned that when an army unit comes at night, no one will refuse to collaborate, out of fear.
Aharon Barak
This is far from uncommon. This is one of a hundred incidents we have investigated. We are glad people are calling it in.... Everything put to us to date was explainable.
Steve Caluris
Islamorada is known for its monster bonefish and it's not uncommon to hear about big fish out of Islamorada.
Andy Newman
With an explosion you want to know where and how it was initiated. We want to know how the fuel came to be, the buildup of gases, how that came about. That's not uncommon in a sealed area.
Terry Farley
It wasn't uncommon for us to hear from clients or customers that they had racked up $ 600 in arrears over the course of a winter.
Rose Adams
[Nancy Gibbs put it best when describing the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster in Time magazine.] On a normal day, ... we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
Nancy Gibbs
The most important diagnostic tool is the patient's history. Is there an association between eating the food and having symptoms? Hidden food allergy is uncommon. Most food allergies occur with a direct relationship ¨C you eat the food, then you have a reaction. It is usually a pretty obvious reaction.
Jay M. Portnoy
New College is a very specific kind of school that offers a small, private school feel at a state college price. It is an uncommon place and could be just the right place for the right student.
Robert Franek
It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.
Scott Nelson
The frustration level is not uncommon. The not knowing and not having the answers is frustrating. Disaster victims just don't know what to expect.
Gavin Smith
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
Norman Angell
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Elizabeth Drew
It's not an uncommon fee. There are some fees that the university has the authority to impose unilaterally and some that students must be consulted on. Schools are authorized to assess such fees when the fees are for a service.
Edward Jackson
That's not uncommon this time of year. And especially getting into springtime, it's not uncommon to get storms that will produce hail. And certainly the stronger the storm you get the bigger the hail you will get.
Eric Platt
It's not at all uncommon, especially for the young male mountain goats, to leave their populations and to wander around. I'm not surprised that one would land there.
Eric Holman
We were unanimously ranked as the No. 1 seed by all five of the league representatives at the seeding meeting; this is uncommon for all the leagues to agree.
Erik Farfan
One of their girls played a serve and volley game that is very uncommon in the tennis world, yet very effective. With such a different playing style, we were simply out gunned. Thus ended a great CHS Tennis season.
Eric Bright
It is unfortunately not uncommon for judges to be sued. There's current litigation against them in which they are being sued in their official capacity ... in fact the city attorney's office is representing them.
Enrique Moreno
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