Uncommon Quotes
What actually counts as rare.
A statesman with common opinions but uncommon abilities, a program that somehow stays unchanged, a building missing something basic — these quotes use “uncommon” to flag what stands out. More in our Rarity quotes.
It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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It is not uncommon to use a towel in afternoon matches, particularly in a place like Mohali in the month of April-May.
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
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It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many...
Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
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