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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
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Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
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Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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