Quotes with common

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  • Campbell Brown Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anton Chekhov Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Adam Clarke Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild 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.
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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
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  • Barry Zito Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
    Stanley And The Women (2011) 266
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Albert Camus More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Kofi Annan More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Henderson Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bradley Joseph Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
    On composing Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Henry David Thoreau My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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