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  • Campbell Brown Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Common people do not pray; they only beg.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Victor Hugo Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Voltaire Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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  • John Masefield Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • John F. Kennedy Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Will Rogers Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • E. B. White Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Herbert Hoover Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • George Leonard Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Laswell Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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