Common Quotes
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
William Somerset Maugham
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart L. Udall
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You will be judges of the fact. You are the sole and exclusive judges of what the truth is. You will bring with you here your common sense.
Russell R. Leggett
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A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea`s and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins
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A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea`s and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins
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A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea`s and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins
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A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea`s and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us
Robert Atkyns
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction
Oscar Ostlund
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Don`t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Brett Robison
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Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
Lord Altrincham
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You don`t pay back your parents. You can`t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It`s a sort of entailment. Or if you don`t have children of the body, it`s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God,...
Lois McMaster Bujold
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I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
John Taylor Gatto
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The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
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Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
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School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Henry Louis Mencken
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School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited
George Santayana
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Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.
Ernest A. Jones
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
