Common Quotes
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But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.
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I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
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When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
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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, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.
