Common Quotes
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You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
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In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.
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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.
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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
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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.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
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Hitherto, it must be admitted that American Negroes have been a race more in name than in fact, or to be exact, more in sentiment than in experience. The chief bond between them has been that of a common condition rather than a common consciousness; a problem in common rather than a life in common.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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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.
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I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
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I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.
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There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
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To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
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If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
