Quotes 301 till 320 of 402.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
Inauguratie 2001 -
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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