William Hazlitt Quotes
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
Lou Holtz
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On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet.
Angelina Jolie
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I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.
Nacho Figueras
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Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
R. H. Tawney
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The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.
Coco Chanel
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So, it was really important that I go do the necessary research. In doing the research, I spent time with a lot of medics and women down at Fort Bliss. I went through an intensive medical course there, with other medics. And then, I really sat down with all of the women that had been deployed, or were getting ready to deploy again. The common thread for them was family, and what a struggle it was for them to come home and face their children and flip a switch.
Michelle Monaghan
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Olivia De Havilland
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I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
William Shakespeare
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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.
Nellie McClung
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
William Hazlitt
