Common Quotes
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A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
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I believe in cooperating for the common good.
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One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
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I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Indeed, that is exactly what they [the Arctic convoys] were. We know that the conditions in which they fought were appalling. Time and again they faced death in the name of a common victory and we remember that.
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American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.
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The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
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I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.
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I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
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Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.
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Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
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For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.
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There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.
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Do something active that's fun. On tour with Kanye and Common, we would have basketball games on a court in every city we went to. With Alicia Keys, we would mountain-bike across Vancouver Island. With Lady Gaga, we would explore all the cool neighborhoods.
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Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.
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Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious, because they want back as much of their empire as they can grab. And we need to resist that. At the same time, we should be able to look for areas of common interest.
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Even in Death they had a thing in common, Pain.
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Friends should have all things in common.
