Commons Content Party

Commons is running this month’s Photo Challenge. Pick a theme, upload a photo, and add it to the matching Entries section.

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It often falls, in course of common life, That right long time is overborne of wrong, Through avarice, or power, or guile, or strife; But justice, though her doom she do prolong, Yet, at the last, she will her own cause right.

docking n 🔊

I am myself, though from moment to moment something else seems to be looking on. Whatever will be required of me, however, can best be done if I remember who I am.

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glamour n 🔊

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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.

apprenticeship n 🔊

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If I’ve made a film that turns out to be good, that’s a good result. If I’ve made a film that’s good and made a couple of friends, that’s a great result. If I’ve made a film that’s no good, but I made a friend, that’s still another great result. It’s at a time like now that the importance of other people is thrown into even sharper relief. You realise who your friends are. You know where the love is.

demigirl n 🔊

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sapphism n 🔊

Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.

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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.

fortuitous adj 🔊

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Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is “immoral” has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.

drunchies n 🔊

*Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I’m only falling apart There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart

misguided adj 🔊

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.

dreamware n 🔊

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There’s nothing useless to a man of sense.

achieve v 🔊

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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. “Logic” proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.

rogues’ gallery n 🔊

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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

at sixes and sevens phrase 🔊

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He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part. The union of your spirits, here, has caused Him to remain For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name There is Love, there is Love.

silhouette n 🔊

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

semiquincentennial adj 🔊

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In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world.

mayhem n 🔊

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These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. With the exception of one small thing, one tiny little thing, they lacked nothing that the sage and thinker had, and that was the consciousness of the unity of all life.

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relentlessly adv 🔊

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

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maple n 🔊

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I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another’s fame. Thus prudes, by characters o’erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

blazer n 🔊

Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.

bagasse n 🔊

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Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.

woebegone adj 🔊

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I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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pseudo-acronym n 🔊

What goes up must come down Spinnin’ wheel gotta go ’round Talking about your troubles is a crying sin Ride a painted pony, let the spinnin’ wheel spin.

inflame v 🔊

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I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech — the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don’t convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

lugger n 🔊

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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

cringeworthy adj 🔊

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Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree. Mute separations, mute black, bloody events in every family. Invisible mourning worn by mothers and wives. Now the arrested are returning, and two Russias stare each other in the eyes: the ones that put them in prison and the ones who were put in prison. A new epoch has begun. You and I will wait for it together.

rheostat n 🔊

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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

philosophy 🔊

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The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

daddy n 🔊

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If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.

translocate v 🔊

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Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It’s a celebration of progress. It’s an affirmation that despite the most painful parts of our history, change is possible –– and there is still so much work to do.

manumissive adj

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To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there’s something there.

on the spectrum phrase 🔊

I see the next few years as being crucial in the transformation of our culture away from the patriarchal death cults and toward the love of life, of nature, of the female principle.

dance with the one that brought you proverb 🔊

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There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.

belated adj 🔊

trillionaire (*n*)

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