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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
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'The man is a common murderer'.
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
Life and the student (1927) -
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
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