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  • Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
  • '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.
  • All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
  • Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
  • It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
  • Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
  • We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • J. Adams 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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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Sydney Smith 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.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Karl Marx 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.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Common sense is genius in homespun.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry van Dyke Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Ban Ki-moon 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.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama 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.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
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    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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