Quotes with common

Quotes 281 till 300 of 402.

  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Lord George Byron The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Walter Lippmann The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. 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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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Matthew Arnold The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Kofi Annan The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Fran Lebowitz The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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