Quotes 341 till 360 of 402.
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This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
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This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776) -
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
Wings of Fire -
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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